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Total cost of Linux ownership - not free but impressive
News Linux's low- or no-cost license fees should drive down the TCO of the open source OS, compared to Windows or other flavors of Unix. For example, take licensing fees, where Linux easily beats Windows or other Unixs.
[December 3, 2002, 10:13]
Billions at stake in chip trial
News If it is successful, Rambus could levy license fees ranging up to as much as ten percent on billions of pounds of memory chips, according to industry analysts. The trial between Rambus and Infineon Technologies that gets underway this week could...
[April 26, 2001, 9:27]
WAP Forum CEO: Eye2Eye - Part 2
News If you get a situation where somebody thinks that the license fees that someone is asking for are not fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, they have two alternatives: they can either negotiate, or they can litigate.
[May 31, 2000, 11:55]
Removing J.D. Edwards reveals PeopleSoft weakness
News License fees at Oracle and SAP, PeopleSoft's two closest competitors, also declined in 2003, but not as much. Oracle, which ends its fiscal year on 31 May, reported a 14 percent slide in application license fees in 2003.
[March 10, 2004, 8:55]
Linux as a technology cost-saving strategy
News Depending upon how you license your Windows Server 2003 operating systems and your CALs, your company may have ongoing annual expenses with Microsoft up to about 25 percent of the original license fees.
[March 11, 2004, 12:30]
Group sets MPEG-4 licensing standards
News The fees are applicable to Web site operators that benefit commercially from use of the technology, through either paid advertisements, pay-per-view services or subscriptions. In February, MPEG LA had proposed fees without thresholds or caps...
[July 16, 2002, 12:19]
A clause for alarm
News A shift is under way to charge premium fees for support levels previously considered basic coverage. Industry experts say customers need to know whether these licenses apply to specific individuals or computers and whether they include maintenance...
[July 17, 2002, 8:50]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
News These fees included a maximum royalty of $1,900 (£1,075) for users wishing to license Microsoft's file and print protocols. The EC criticised Microsoft's original server interoperability licence for charging unjustifiably high royalty fees.
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
Tech group backs MPEG-4 audio licence
News MPEG LA, a licensing body representing 18 patent holders, proposed a plan early this year that would require licensees to pay 25 cents for MPEG-4 video encoders or decoders, with fees capped at $1m a year for each licensee.
[March 27, 2002, 11:15]
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. CSIRO engages in patent licensing discussions with several manufacturers...
[October 2, 2007, 11:14]
Nokia pleads for flat-rate 3G licensing
News Capping royalty fees will likely decrease the cost of the ensuing cell phone and network equipment. The proposed cap would bring in lower intellectual property fees than the telecommunications industry usually charges, although Matthews and others...
[May 9, 2002, 9:27]
RealNetworks: MPEG-4 could be DOA
News Proposed licensing fees for MPEG-4, a next-generation video compression standard, could mean its early death on the personal computer, RealNetworks chief executive Rob Glaser said in a press conference on Wednesday.
[April 26, 2002, 8:43]
SCO sets steep charge for Linux licence
News I think SCO will try to get some licensing fees, but until they do something to indicate they're going to take people to court, it's not going to happen," he said. Along with the lawsuit, Red Hat announced it had set up a defence fund, with an...
[August 6, 2003, 9:10]
Transmeta investigating Taiwan foundries
News Those products will probably already demand a retail premium because of the licensing fees that must be paid to IBM and Transmeta. Such licence fees, covering key aspects of x86 technology, could raise the price of Transmeta-based products.
[August 8, 2000, 10:00]
Second-hand PC shipments tipped to boom
Talkback No software license fees to pay in the first place on a GNU/Linux machine. All nice and legal, thanks to the GPL.
[September 28, 2005, 17:26]
Novell: Microsoft 'sucked $60bn' out of the industry
Talkback What about their license fees for Netware! .and Novell has not!
[September 13, 2004, 19:36]
Gartner - to be trusted?
Talkback A lot of companies use OSS as a leveraging tool to obtain lower license fees from proprietary software, but they don't "lose" by using OSS.
[November 20, 2007, 12:43]
Pharmlog Picks SAP DB to Lower Total Cost of Ownership, Increase Flexibility, and Reduce System Administration
White Papers SAP DB is open-source software and available without up-front license fees. PharmLog chose SAP DB for cost, flexibility, and reduced system administration. SAP DB requires much less daily work and administration for PharmLog's IT staff.
[September 28, 2007, 1:00]
No suprise
Talkback It shouldn't surprise anybody that companies would opt for open source, its much better to pay just for support rather than the normally astronomical license fees. I am surprised however that a whole 9% of companies are Microsoft free, I didn't...
[July 29, 2008, 9:22]
Fight ends over European music downloads
Talkback They are demanding license fees for processes that are obvious in this age to any competant programmer. These litigous patent holding companies are nothing more than leeches on ecommerce, and everyone who uses it, as they add NO value.
[December 20, 2004, 11:21]
