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NHS spend on IT - How would you make savings?
Blog Apparently, the NHS spent over half a billion GBP in 2004 on a Microsoft licensing deal to cover a 9 year agreement involving around 600,000 desktop computers. That would cost £1,600,000 or less than a third of one percent of the existing...
[December 8, 2009, 6:49]
Yahoo, Microsoft finalise search agreement
News Company executives did not have to rack up the frequent-flier miles to finalise this year; they signed it virtually, with Microsoft's Qi Lu and Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz representing their respective companies on the licensing agreement...
[December 7, 2009, 7:50]
Radioactive assumptions in the Digital Economy Bill
Leader That is certainly possible, if we're prepared to contemplate state intervention equivalent to the Soviet approach of licensing photocopiers. But with the strange business of ACTA — the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, negotiated in high secrecy...
[November 24, 2009, 15:30]
Rockwool Group Consolidating 400 Servers With Enrollment for Application Platform
White Papers Rockwool is taking advantage of the Microsoft Volume Licensing Enrolment for Application Platform, a flexible new multi-year agreement that allows an organization to deploy as many licenses of selected software as it needs for a set yearly fee.
[November 19, 2009, 0:21]
The Truth About Wasteful Spending on Software: How to Stop Giving Your Software Vendors Money for Applications You Don't Use
White Papers The dirty little secret of software licensing is one is buying more software than one need from the major software vendors. A fair software license agreement would allow company to pay for software that employees are actually using.
[November 13, 2009, 0:21]
Intel and AMD settle, agree cross-licensing deal
News According to a joint statement from the two companies, Intel and AMD will share patent rights across all their products in a new five-year cross-licensing agreement, and both companies will give up any claims of breach from their previous licence...
[November 12, 2009, 13:48]
Motorola and Aruba agree Wi-Fi patent ceasefire
Blog Aruba Networks and Motorola have settled their long-running patent dispute by signing a cross-licensing agreement, the companies announced on Friday. On Friday, Aruba and Motorola issued a statement in which they said they had "reached an agreement...
[November 9, 2009, 17:06]
Skype deal averts shutdown, allows sale
News Skype, owned by eBay since 2005, licenses Global Index Software from Joltid, but earlier this year the two companies fell out over the licensing terms. On Friday, eBay said Silver Lake had reached a settlement agreement with Zennström and Friis's...
[November 6, 2009, 14:49]
Coating Excellence International - Manuafacturer Gains Real-Time Production Data, Reduces Licensing Costs by 15 Percent
White Papers And by signing a Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise Agreement, it cut software license acquisition and management costs, set a predictable licensing cost per desktop, and gained Software Assurance benefits.
[October 28, 2009, 8:45]
Nokia vs Apple: The hidden scandal
News Instead, the major IP owners — including Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson and the less well-known Interdigital — have cross-licensing agreements that let them use each other's IP. Those outside this group must make their own arrangements with each...
[October 26, 2009, 15:29]
Citrix changes XenDesktop licences after feedback
Blog Ewen Anderson, MD of UK consultancy Centralis, told ZDNet “It’s not clear whether the earlier furore over licensing models was a real issue or just a mis-interpreted release, but Citrix have moved swiftly to dispel the dark clouds and thrown in...
[October 20, 2009, 15:37]
US regulators want rewrite of Google book settlement
News Ever since the settlement was announced, opposition has mounted to what one University of California at Berkeley professor recently called "the largest copyright licensing deal in US history". It would appear that the DOJ, however, would prefer...
[September 21, 2009, 9:44]
Businesses offered free trial of Windows 7
News From Tuesday, Microsoft is offering a 90-day trial of Windows 7 Enterprise for IT professionals who do not have a Software Assurance volume licensing agreement and are not MSDN or TechNet subscribers.
[September 3, 2009, 15:20]
Microsoft signs confidential IP deal over NTFS
News We'll be licensing our Linux NTFS under the GPL, and we have an agreement with Microsoft. The Tuxera chief executive added that the company has a dual-licensing policy with NTFS, with its proprietary version having features tailored and optimised...
[August 26, 2009, 14:38]
Apple didn't "steal" from Xerox
Talkback Unfortunately, after Steve Jobs left Apple, the then CEO gave away Apple's crown jewels to Microsoft in a licensing agreement that was so incredibly stupidly written that it had a loophole that gave Microsoft full reign to copy the Macintosh GUI.
[August 17, 2009, 18:48]
Skype aims to avoid shutdown with new tech
News A legal dispute over licensing terms arose earlier this year between Skype and Joltid, and Skype filed a claim against Joltid in the English high court in March, according to SEC filings by eBay. In response, Joltid filed a countersuit, saying...
[July 31, 2009, 16:37]
ISV Simplifies Software Management, Saves 40 Percent, With Volume Licensing Agreement
White Papers To reduce costs while maximizing flexibility and simplifying license management, EPAM signed a Microsoft Volume Licensing Enterprise Subscription Agreement. Under this agreement, the firm leases Professional Desktop Platform licenses for three...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Manufacturing Firm Cuts Helpdesk Calls From 200 to Two by Desktop Standardisation
White Papers Working with Microsoft Licensing Partner Faritec, the company standardised its desktop environment with Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 - bought using a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement for volume licensing.
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
Healthcare and Social Services Provider Examines BI Strategy, Plans for Future
White Papers To set a foundation for Business Intelligence (BI) and support a range of other IT initiatives, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust first signed a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement to standardize licensing for Microsoft products and technologies.
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
University Uses Virtualization to Create More Responsive, Cost-Effective Data Center
White Papers UNISO has reduced data center energy and cooling costs by 40 percent, real estate needs by 70 percent, and software licensing costs by 60 percent using a Microsoft Campus Agreement. The Universidade de Sorocaba (UNISO), in Sorocaba, Brazil...
[July 27, 2009, 1:20]
