Network World

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business partners, Bloomberg reported.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

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. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. McDowell agrees.

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Virtualization Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 430

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

FinOps, which was first created to maximise the use of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) models, is currently broadening its scope to include Software as a Service (SaaS). FinOps procedures and ITAM tools should work together to guarantee ongoing SaaS license management and monitoring.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

There are three software licensing options, including a free community edition for enterprises that want to kick the tires.The Hive Fabric Enterprise option includes HCI, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), guest pool deployments and user profile management. HiveIOs Hive Sense is used to proactively monitor and detect anomalies.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Neural Magic was spun out of MIT in 2018, and it offers software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI inference workloads. Red Hat intends to democratize the power of AI through open-source-licensed models that can run anywhere.

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Linux Open Source Architecture Licensing 370

Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Major software companies employ teams of full-time workers to write and contribute code to open source projects. Open source has taken the enterprise by storm. What was once seen as risky code, developed in suburban basements, has taken on new life. Even end user companies such as Netflix, Lyft, Capital One, etc.,

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Licensing Open Source Enterprise Enterprise 433

Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

Thats been apparent since the companys acquisition of virtualization software vendor VMware, where licensing prices have leapt upwards although many customers have little choice but to continue to pay the spiralling prices. Broadcoms statement quoted CEO Hock Tan as arguing that the buyback is from a position of strength.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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. Meta itself refers to it as a community license or a bespoke commercial license.

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Open Source Security Licensing Training 288

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2023

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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Licensing Oracle SAP Software 306

CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

SAP R/1 was designed as standard software that could be offered to other companies. This principle was so successful that R/3 almost completely replaced the R/2 software package. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. This allows for maximum flexibility.

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System SAP Licensing Architecture 280

Network World

MARCH 10, 2025

Entrepreneur Moores is the owner ofSwitzerland-based LzLabs and well known for founding BMC Software in 1980. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

At issue is how third-party software is allowed access to data within SAP systems. The software company is making it virtually impossible for its customers to work with non-SAP process mining solutions. The dispute revolved around the question of how users who access SAP via third-party software should be licensed.

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SAP Data Licensing Software 240

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? There’s not much incentive for large vendors to provide prolonged support for software they’d just as soon discard into the end-of-life bin. Neither have we. Rimini Street is different. When was your last database health check?

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Oracle Licensing Database Administration Open Source 312

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When organizations buy a shiny new piece of software, attention is typically focused on the benefits: streamlined business processes, improved productivity, automation, better security, faster time-to-market, digital transformation. A full-blown TCO analysis can be complicated and time consuming.

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Software Software Enterprise Enterprise 328

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With tight IT budgets getting tighter, many Oracle licensees with Unlimited Licensing Agreements (ULAs) are tempted to consider an exit plan to avoid the pinch of rising support costs. Most enterprises want to avoid expending unnecessary time, effort, and resources on licensing issues, so they can focus on maximizing value and results.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2024

billion ruling that it improperly replaced mainframe software from rival BMC at AT&T. AT&T “independently decided” to displace BMC software from its mainframe environment, the three-judge appeal court panel ruled. “AT&T’s IBM and BMC both develop software that runs on IBM mainframes. IBM appealed. billion judgement.

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IBM Software Software Licensing 290

Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Third, when customers are using third-party tools, such as SolarWinds for SNMP management, they are licensed via IP address. So, by exposing a single IP for a group of switches, customers can realize license cost savings,” Venkiteswaran said.

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Network Licensing Operating Systems Groups 319

Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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Vmware Virtualization Quality Assurance Licensing 348

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 10, 2025

Meanwhile, many enterprise employees turn to unauthorized apps and software to do their jobs, the study says. In many cases, employees download new apps because approved software is difficult to use or doesnt have the capabilities they need to get their work done, he says. Some organizations are too strict, however, Gfesser adds.

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Fractional CTO Study Company Enterprise 325

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24 The software spending increases will be driven by several factors, including price increases, expanding license bases, and some AI investments , says John Lovelock, distinguished vice president analyst at Gartner.

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Data Center Artificial Intelligence Software Software 334

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 17, 2022

Cloud adoption might have the effect of consolidating IT by bringing a host of interactions on to a single platform and shift the cost of running IT from CapEx spending to OpEx, but there is the potential for it to cause licensing “bill shock.” Introducing Cloud Navigator portal. Introducing Cloud Navigator portal.

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Licensing Cloud Microsoft Tools 243

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Concerns about price hikes surfaced when Broadcom moved VMware away from perpetual licensing terms and onto a subscription model that bundles multiple products together. Broadcoms infrastructure software revenue grew 41% to $5.8 The capital cost of the new VMWare licensing is but a small part of the overall project.

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Vmware Comparison Virtualization Disaster Recovery 287

CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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Vmware Licensing Cloud Virtualization 214

Information Week

AUGUST 12, 2022

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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Open Source Case Study Licensing Study 440

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

All UK businesses and organizations that bought licenses for Windows Server via Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud may have been overcharged and will be represented in this new ‘opt-out’ collective action,” the law firm statement said. “I The lawsuit is seeking more than £1 billion (roughly US$1.3 Kimball asked.

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Microsoft Licensing Cloud Operating Systems 264

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Info-Tech Research Group noted that most customers need a 30% to 35% discount on the E5 license to match the renewal pricing for M365 E3. Its also important to negotiate flexible licensing terms that include clearly defined usage metrics, renewal-term price protections, and contractual safeguards against future cost increases.

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Microsoft Licensing Tools Groups 232

Network World

JULY 16, 2024

Just days after Microsoft said that it was attempting to resolve the issue with CISPE, Google along with AWS started protesting Microsoft’s anticompetitive cloud software licensing practices in the EU.

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Microsoft Google Report Licensing 397

Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

VMware upgrades software-defined edge for AI workloads Aug 27, 2024: VMware has added connectivity options and traffic-management capabilities to its software-defined edge products to better support generative AI workloads. Customers want to continue to see innovation across the VMware portfolio, says one analyst.

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Vmware Conference Cloud Enterprise 369

Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.” That’s where we came up with this vision: people would build private clouds with fully software-defined networks, storage and computing.

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CTO Vmware Cloud Storage 394

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By 2027, 70% of new contracts for employees will include licensing and fair usage clauses for AI representations of their personas. For example, Gartner said it is expecting a proliferation of “agentic AI,” which refers to intelligent software entities that use AI techniques to complete tasks and achieve goals.

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Energy Healthcare Enterprise Enterprise 338

Network World

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Software, software and more software. That seems to be the mantra for Cisco in 2019 as the company pushes software-defined WANs, cloud partnerships, improved application programs and its over-arching drive to sell more subscription-based software licenses.

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WAN Licensing Software Software 419

Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

Discontent over VMware licensing changes and shifts to the partner program has sent customers looking elsewhere, and at least two competitors say they are benefiting from the discord in the form of increased sales. This forced some customers to buy software they didn’t need as part of a bundle, increasing their costs.

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Vmware Licensing Hotels Virtualization 459

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2024

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road. Software development requires heavy documentation,” Dasdan says.

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Software Development Software Software Development 328

Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

Streamlined licensing is another component of the Blueprint. “To Disparate licenses, varied terms, and unpredictable costs can hinder operational efficiency and become a significant burden,” wrote Mathias Kokot, vice president of cloud-ready data center at Juniper, in a blog about licensing.

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Education Programming Data Center Licensing 397