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6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT

...picture of how Whitehall buys IT — and just how many of its software licences are lying idle across central government. According to the department, there... Read more

24 May, 2012 by Jo Best

Oracle's earnings see strength in software

The company has reported growth in software licences and product support revenue, although its hardware business saw a fall... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Larry Dignan
ZENworks 11

ZENworks 11

...helps network managers keep track of hardware and software assets and manage software licences. That's quite a lot to get to grips with — and... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Alan Stevens

Government seeks savings through licence shuffle

...government says it wants to encourage the re-use and reallocation of software licences, while repeated culls of civil-servant positions mean a number of... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Oracle deal promises £75m in savings for government

...customer, with all departments buying software at the same rate. Licence sharing: Software licences can be reused across departments rather than each department having to... Read more

28 March, 2012 by Sade Laja

Microsoft's System Center 2012 gets first release

...companies will need to buy in other products in order to track software licences, whereas VMware is preparing to introduce this feature into its Horizon... Read more

17 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Spanish antitrust authorities go after Microsoft

...opened an investigation into Microsoft for allegedly blocking third parties from selling software licences. The National Competition Commission (CNC) said on Tuesday that the investigation... Read more

21 September, 2011

F5 gives ARX a speedy makeover for small businesses

...can scale between 1,500 and 3,000 users depending on the software licences used. It also has redundant power supplies. For larger companies, F5... Read more

12 July, 2011

VMware's cloud identity broker appears on the Horizon

...according to Wright. The software may eventually embrace the management of individual software licences as well as user identities, he added.When ZDNet UK put... Read more

17 May, 2011 by Jack Clark

VMware targets SMBs with Go Pro virtualisation package

...patches for the Microsoft operating system and other software application vendors; track software licences across an IT stack; manage bug fix requests; and provide hardware... Read more

28 January, 2011

HP and Microsoft launch business appliances

...support and is available immediately. As with the other appliances, the Microsoft software licences are an additional cost. In addition, the partners introduced the HP... Read more

19 January, 2011 by Jack Clark

Microsoft to cut school software licensing costs

...new scheme, which begins on 1 March, will see schools pay for software licences based on staff numbers rather than the number of computers, Microsoft... Read more

17 January, 2011 by Ben Woods

London services aim to save £450m

...318,000 on servers and file storage and £350,000 on Microsoft software licences. It expects spending to fall to £694,000 the following year... Read more

12 January, 2011 by Kable

Becta closure was 'a mistake', say report witnesses

Experts have criticised the closure of the educational technology agency Becta in a report by the Public Administration Committee Read more

10 January, 2011 by Kable

SAP to pay interest in $1.3bn Oracle case

...842m) Oracle was awarded by a US court to compensate for the software licences that should have been purchased in 2005 and 2006. SAP appealed... Read more

30 December, 2010 by Ben Woods

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UnderINK

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