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Licensing anger driving users towards Linux
News A panel discussion on European software licensing models on Monday was in broad agreement that many businesses and organisations are dissatisfied by the service traditionally offered by the software industry.
[November 8, 2004, 15:28]
HP's double-edged IP sword
News Notable deals including licensing its Some of the claims come from 'patent trolls' who buy patents on the open market and then use them to extract payments, Joe Beyers, vice-president of intellectual property licensing at HP, said in a recent...
[November 11, 2005, 14:40]
Contract arguments reanimate SCO dispute
News Specifically, Novell says the company should provide details of Unix licensing deals in 2003 with Microsoft and Sun that brought SCO millons of dollars. SCO's first contract violation lies in its failure to comply with requirements to supply Novell...
[August 1, 2005, 9:30]
Microsoft weeds out Office XP bugs
News Microsoft responded to slow upgrades in May by unveiling a controversial new licensing program that raised customers' costs anywhere from 33 percent to 107 percent, according to Gartner. Absolutely, one of the things that certainly helped Microsoft...
[December 14, 2001, 10:56]
Amazon saves millions with Linux switch
News Among those forces: the coming version 6 of Sun Microsystems' StarOffice package of office software, which many believe will be a more capable product than the bulky current version and thus a more credible alternative to Microsoft's Office...
[October 31, 2001, 9:49]
Microsoft settles Bristol lawsuit
News Bristol alleged that Microsoft initially gave access to the Windows source code for its Wind/U product but later raised licensing fees after NT found its footing in the workstation and server markets.
[February 22, 2001, 9:05]
Oracle price hike irks customers
News A pricing disagreement between Oracle and some of its database software customers has IT analyst firm Meta Group urging customers not to pay the database software maker additional licensing fees. Oracle acknowledged that they are talking to some...
[March 20, 2002, 9:38]
New group aims at universal security
News In addition, the group has created new licensing terms, a logo program and has broadened the types of devices and applications for which the technology will be promoted. The TCG is a more formal group with licensing policy, a marketing budget, and...
[April 9, 2003, 12:00]
Dual cores mean double trouble
Leader We understand it is still lobbying Microsoft -- together with other software vendors such as Oracle -- over multi-core licensing issues. The reason is that few software vendors, many of whom currently sell licences on the basis of how many...
[February 8, 2005, 11:10]
The key to Intel's domination
News The case went to trial, and an eventual settlement caused Microsoft to change its licensing terms and the way it paired products. The licensing terms for Windows 95 had required manufacturers to also license and distribute Microsoft's Internet...
[August 11, 2004, 12:35]
Reader survey: Security is priority for spending
News Developed under the GNU General Public License, the source code for Linux is free, as opposed to Microsoft Windows, which charges hefty licensing fees to registered users. There are economic arguments that can be made to demonstrate that Linux...
[June 8, 2002, 7:32]
The Year Ahead: Will Linux survive the dot-com crash?
News A recent IDC study found that 60 percent of Microsoft customers don't really understand the impact of the new licensing plan, called Licensing 6.0, and 15 percent are concerned enough about it to look at alternative technologies.
[January 2, 2002, 6:31]
Microsoft sets Azure pricing and service levels
News Taylor said there will be three ways of using Azure: pay-as-you-go, subscription and volume licensing. The discounts they get through Enterprise Agreement licensing will apply to Azure as well," he said.
[July 14, 2009, 14:30]
No backdown from CSIRO over Wi-Fi patents
News CSIRO has already successfully used these patents to sue one wireless product manufacturer, Buffalo Technology, for refusing to honour the patent by paying licensing fees. In a response filed with the IEEE late last week, CSIRO vice president of...
[October 2, 2007, 11:14]
Genivi shows why open source is good for business
Blog A standard set of interfaces for software in cars is good for everyone in the industry - the car manufacturers can build whatever features they like into their cars, and use the same code across any model of car; the software companies supplying...
[March 6, 2009, 11:53]
Alternatives to Microsoft Office review
Reviews Pricing & licensing Pricing & licensing download; free & paid online versions free online beta version free online beta version It's no secret that Microsoft dominates the productivity suite market, but that doesn't mean it's the only way to go.
[October 1, 2007, 16:21]
Red Hat, Microsoft expand virtualisation alliance
News But the agreements do not include "any patent or open-source licensing rights", the companies said, which will leave individual licensing issues to the customer. Red Hat and Microsoft said on Monday they will be expanding their alliance on...
[February 17, 2009, 14:30]
HP and Intel round on Oracle over dual-core licences
News They have focused on licensing by core, but we’re trying hard to have them see things the way we do. The question that comes up in every meeting to Oracle is 'when will you change licensing scheme? The processor is not a fixed entity any more as it...
[February 11, 2005, 12:30]
Is Linux on the move?
News Sherwin Williams will save millions of dollars in software licensing fees -- funds it can funnel toward systems development and customer service. That's because there are so many companies that would benefit from having a data-center OS standard...
[July 3, 2002, 10:42]
Microsoft must pay $1.5bn in MP3 patent case
News Fraunhofer has since handed the MP3-licensing duties over to Thomson. Given this verdict, it wouldn't surprise me if Lucent is even more aggressive in the marketplace about licensing its patents, but it has always been aggressive," Leibnitz said.
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
