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Nokia Pleads For Flat-rate 3G Licensing
News Spokeswoman Megan Matthews said Wednesday that Nokia wants companies that license the technology -- including Nokia itself -- to pay no more than a total of 5 percent of the cost of building a device for intellectual property.
[May 9, 2002, 9:27]
Compaq Sues For Patent Infringement
News When a company like eMachines comes along -- without cross-license protection -- and starts gobbling up chunks of the market, it has no defence against a patent suit," said Brookwood, adding that Compaq, Dell and other PC makers have already cross...
[July 27, 1999, 8:56]
Microsoft To Hike Price Of Server Apps
News With Exchange 2000, for example, Microsoft is attempting to stick to the Windows 2000 pricing structure already in place -- namely, a server and client-access license(CAL) model. Customers buy a single server license for a particular application...
[June 19, 2000, 11:06]
CMS Alternatives: Low-cost Tools Bring High-end Results
News It was released under an open-source license, similar to the Apache license, in early 2000, and is in use by a number of independent sites, as well as all the news sites in the Knight Ridder family. But if you're looking for alternatives, plenty...
[May 6, 2003, 15:09]
Apple's Mini Plans Ready For The Big Time
News The danger is that when you go out and license to other people you lose control of the design. The argument that Apple should license its operating system or port it to x86 architecture is as old as the Mac.
[January 13, 2005, 16:40]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
Talkback You do need a paying license to develop software that is not GPL compatible for Qt. No FUD The cost is trivial for a larger outfit of course, but it is not cheap for a small shop (1-5 developers or so).
[October 11, 2005, 1:04]
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. Whether you pay $2,000 for a Windows license or $49.95 for a boxed copy of Linux, over the course of its lifetime...
[December 3, 2002, 10:13]
Five Things You'll Love (and Hate) About Windows Vista
Talkback Upgrade costs are not limited to the cost of the license(s). OS license is probably one of the lowest costs in that list. In short, it appears that most of the "What I Love" top 5 items are either already available in earlier Windows versions, can...
[June 25, 2006, 11:01]
Microsoft Rubbishes School Open Source Report
Talkback When you buy a license from a software publisher, you do not own that copy. Open Source does not mean no cost. TCO presumes that the uses is already compentent in windows and it applications and the cost of retraining is a considerable expense.
[May 19, 2005, 19:52]
The Week In Review: When Is Broadband Not Broadband?
News The catch is that you must license your modifications back to Microsoft under a no-royalty agreement or give the rights entirely back to Microsoft. No price cut planned for BT Broadband Oftel is also pushing BT to lower the cost of dial-up Internet...
[April 11, 2003, 16:29]
Linux As A Technology Cost-saving Strategy
News Quantify: Calculate the cost of licensing multiple OS licences for identified servers and/or workstations from Microsoft vs.one license for all workstations and one license for all servers with Linux.
[March 11, 2004, 12:30]
Rambus-powered PCs In The Works
News Intel says, however, that the company is no longer under license to sell chip sets for Pentium III processors. VIA was granted a contract to licensed the P6 bus, the system bus used with Pentium III chips, but later violated the terms of the...
[November 2, 1999, 8:23]
Sun Makes Mileage Out Of AIX Wrangle
News SCO has said that the termination of the AIX license means that IBM Unix customers also have no licence to use the software. In an ongoing dispute over intellectual-property rights to Unix, SCO said on Monday that it has revoked IBM's license to...
[June 19, 2003, 10:01]
Microsoft To Change Licensing Rules
News Some Microsoft customers complained about having to license all CPUs on a multiprocessor server even though not all of them access the software," Gartner analyst Alvin Park wrote in a research note issued last week.
[March 14, 2003, 7:57]
SCO Ponders Hike In 'Linux IP' Licence Fees
News Companies that license now may be able to do so cheaper than if they do so later," said Stowell. SCO has hinted that it may soon raise the cost of its intellectual property (IP) licences, which it says companies running Linux need to buy in order...
[August 10, 2004, 11:25]
Bring The Tangible Benefits Of Linux To Your Organisation
News Linux does not include a license limiting its installation to a single machine. A cost-conscious user can download at no cost all the application software needed to make a Linux system into a fully functioning computer.
[June 23, 2005, 11:10]
Linux Insurance Goes On Sale
News At the same time, it sued DaimlerChrysler, alleging that the automaker violated its Unix license with SCO by refusing to say how many computers at the company use Unix technology. But SCO has no objection to OSRM's business: "If people feel there's...
[April 19, 2004, 8:25]
Will SunRay Do A JavaStation?
News Sun plans to license the Hot Desk protocol to third parties that are interested in building Hot Desk appliances. In the new model, there is no OS to be managed whatsoever. There is no local processing," Banman says, adding that users can plug the...
[September 8, 1999, 11:11]
Seizing Opportunities To Go Open Source
News He was also told that license purchases will come out of his office's budget. You count the five Microsoft Windows 98 licenses and the one Microsoft Office 97 license. Your CIO is upset and asks you to make a quick assessment of what it will cost...
[November 4, 2003, 10:45]
Microsoft Plays Browser Games
News The decision to secure that license has many at AOL breathing a sigh of relief now that Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of stand-alone IE. AOL, for its part, has just ended its browser-related legal claims against Microsoft as part of a...
[June 4, 2003, 14:47]
