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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

The Court found that these parties had conspired to breach Winsopias license agreement in a deliberate, systematic and intentionally hidden effort to unlawfully reverse engineer critical IBM mainframe technology. IBM licensed its mainframe software to Winsopia beginning in 2013, according to the court documents.

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

You have user interfaces that say, ‘I want my application to do this,’ you hit the button, and the code gets generated in the background.” A lot of open-source programs are meant for non-commercial use only. When an AI generates code, it doesn’t know how that code will be used, so you might end up accidentally violating license terms.”

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

We have gone from choosing an operating system to being able to run any application anywhere and on any cloud by virtualizing storage.” We have reached a level of technological maturity where people try to place the right application in the right location, and that place is the private cloud.”

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How to strengthen the security of Oracle applications without relying on OAU

CIO Business Intelligence

Vendor support agreements have long been a sticking point for customers, and the Oracle Applications Unlimited (OAU) program is no different. That, in turn, can lead to system crashes, application errors, degraded performance, and downtime.

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IT resiliency: Running two different hypervisors

CIO Business Intelligence

Some delayed decisions by relying on existing VMware licenses, while others explored alternatives or ran redundancies to compare options. It’s the ongoing challenge of integrating legacy systems and applications with next-gen technologies and solutions. When vendor shakeups occur, CIOs and IT leaders immediately think about resiliency.

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US modifies AI chip export rules, boosting Middle East access

Network World

This move could simplify the shipment process for US companies by allowing foreign data centers to apply for special status, avoiding the need for individual export licenses. Earlier, the US exporters were required to obtain individual licenses to export such chips to “countries of concern.”