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How to mitigate software licensing surprises

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s unsurprising to see legacy providers shifting their business models from perpetual software licensing to subscription-based pricing. This past year has been rife with complaints over a substantial licensing change by Citrix after it was acquired by private equity firms and merged with TIBCO Software.

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Google, Microsoft could turn gatekeepers for advanced AI chips

Network World

The US government could designate cloud providers including Google and Microsoft as global gatekeepers for advanced AI chips, a step widely viewed as the latest effort to block Chinas access to this critical technology, according to a Reuters report. This would ensure their growth wont be hampered globally.

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CISPE raises red alert over Broadcom’s VMware licensing changes

Network World

The European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), a monitoring body established by the association of Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) as a way to keep cloud licensing practices fair in the region, this week came down hard on Broadcom for its failure to do so.

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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. 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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Microsoft settles cloud complaint for $22M to avoid EU antitrust probe

Network World

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. A complaint was filed in 2022 by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers Europe) accusing Microsoft of unfair licensing practices that hurt Europe’s cloud computing ecosystem.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others. McDowell agrees.

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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Weve developed our software such that the LLM open source or proprietary can be swapped in or out via configuration. Chatbot Arena ranks more than 160 top models both proprietary and open source and lists their licenses. For example, he says, Metas Llama is very large, which impacts inference time. Too many to choose from?