Remove Applications Remove Licensing Remove Operating Systems
article thumbnail

Will VMWare’s licensing changes push devirtualization of data centers?

CIO Business Intelligence

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.

Licensing 124
article thumbnail

Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It’s a radical rethinking of how we even view our current choices of UNIX-derived operating systems.

article thumbnail

The Battle for Mobile Operating System Supremacy

The Investing Edge

In the cases of both PCs and smartphones, Apple implemented a walled garden approach to establish complete control of hardware, OS, and applications. While Microsoft designed MS-DOS to work as an open system that could run on multiple computers, Apple was limited by the closed design of the Macintosh system.

article thumbnail

Building Decentralized Applications with Pico Networks

Phil Windley

Summary: Picos make building decentralized applications easy. Building a system of picos for a specific application requires programming them to perform the proper lifecycle management tasks to create the picos that model the application. The pico engine is an open source project licensed under a liberal MIT license.

article thumbnail

Microsoft joins SAP, Oracle in setting sunset date for legacy ERP support

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2022, Microsoft announced the “end of innovation” for Dynamics GP, and in 2023, it said that no new licenses would be sold after April 2025. However, SAP will only provide mainstream maintenance for legacy SAP Business Suite 7 core applications until the end of 2027. Peoplesoft will now receive support through at least 2035.

SAP 130
article thumbnail

Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Many developers faced difficulties porting applications developed for a particular computing environment decades ago. Each container leverages a shared operating system kernel and encapsulates everything needed to run an application (application code, dependencies, environment variables, application runtimes, libraries, system tools etc.)