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Apple pays $454m to VirnetX in patent infringement case
Apple pays $454m to VirnetX in patent infringement case

At least one of the patent cases between Apple and VirnetX now appears to be over

  • Licensing
  • 17 March 2020
Firms should treat software licence reviews as a material risk to business
Firms should treat software licence reviews as a material risk to business

Software licence reviews present a significant risk to business - but there are ways to combat them

  • Licensing
  • 09 October 2018
Case study: Arup slashes licensing bill with Snow
Case study: Arup slashes licensing bill with Snow

Arup claims to have saved £4m on licensing by weeding out unused software

  • Licensing
  • 22 March 2018
Most SAP licensees are ignoring S/4, pursuing hybrid IT instead
Most SAP licensees are ignoring S/4, pursuing hybrid IT instead

Two-thirds of survey respondents have 'no plans' to migrate to S/4HANA

  • Leadership
  • 30 June 2017
Software companies need new licensing models - and here's why
Software companies need new licensing models - and here's why

It's impossible to accurately forecast software use

  • Licensing
  • 29 June 2017
Money for old code?
Money for old code?

Is your organisation on top of its software licensing? Check, double check, and set aside a few million pounds, just in case you're wrong, warn Fieldfisher's Sam Jardine and Liam Corrigan

  • Management
  • 27 June 2017
Cisco's enterprise agreement takes the stress out of software licensing
Cisco's enterprise agreement takes the stress out of software licensing

Cisco's been threatening to move to software for years - and it just might have taken its first steps

  • Software
  • 01 June 2017
SAP UK & Ireland User Group voices concern about impact of IoT on SAP licensing costs
SAP UK & Ireland User Group voices concern about impact of IoT on SAP licensing costs

SAP users concerned about indirect licensing as use cases change

  • Licensing
  • 21 November 2016
FAST threatens companies with demands for compensation over 'historic' unlicensed software
FAST threatens companies with demands for compensation over 'historic' unlicensed software

Federation Against Software Theft to impose retrospective penalties on corporate software pirates

  • Software
  • 19 October 2016
Oracle loses yet another appeal against Google in Java API case
Oracle loses yet another appeal against Google in Java API case

Judge throws out case and says Oracle lawyers acted in a "mischievous" way

  • Licensing
  • 30 September 2016
Microsoft to introduce more flexible Enterprise Advantage licensing in 2017
Microsoft to introduce more flexible Enterprise Advantage licensing in 2017

Microsoft moves to let customers mix on-premise and cloud tools in their volume licenses

  • Licensing
  • 05 July 2016
Greater London Authority IT chief feels 'liberated' after Oracle migration
Greater London Authority IT chief feels 'liberated' after Oracle migration

GLA is now making greater use of open source tools in a bid to boost flexibility and save money

  • Licensing
  • 12 April 2016
Microsoft tempts Oracle customers with free SQL Server 2016 licences
Microsoft tempts Oracle customers with free SQL Server 2016 licences

Microsoft says firms can save by switching, but they must be signed up for Software Assurance licensing

  • Applications
  • 11 March 2016
Oracle's 'traumatic' licensing methodology works, so it won't change, says Specsavers global CIO
Oracle's 'traumatic' licensing methodology works, so it won't change, says Specsavers global CIO

It took Specsavers nine months to renegotiate a licensing deal with Oracle, but it didn't have to, says Phil Pavitt

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  • 25 February 2016
Mars wanted to sue Oracle in licensing dispute
Mars wanted to sue Oracle in licensing dispute

Mars court filings show the extent to which Oracle would go to get more money out of one of its biggest customers

  • Licensing
  • 20 January 2016
Oracle's new software licence sales tank - and cloud isn't growing fast enough to plug the gap
Oracle's new software licence sales tank - and cloud isn't growing fast enough to plug the gap

Customers just not buying Oracle software licences in the way that they used to

  • Software
  • 17 December 2015
'Stove-piped, not joined-up' blue-chip vendors 'frustrating' to work with, says CIO
'Stove-piped, not joined-up' blue-chip vendors 'frustrating' to work with, says CIO

Large vendors are too rigid to work with if you're an SME, claims Genting Casinos UK's Chris Ashworth

  • Business Software
  • 25 November 2015
Struggling with Oracle licensing? Dump your systems integrator, suggests DVLA CTO
Struggling with Oracle licensing? Dump your systems integrator, suggests DVLA CTO

Systems integrators have no motive to reduce your licence footprint, says Iain Patterson

  • Licensing
  • 29 October 2015
Backbytes: How software companies are losing friends and alienating customers
Backbytes: How software companies are losing friends and alienating customers

Far from trying to hold on to their customers, big software companies seem to be trying to wring them even harder

  • Software
  • 06 October 2015
From Ada to Zuckerberg: History's most important IT people
From Ada to Zuckerberg: History's most important IT people

Key figures in the development of technology through the ages

  • Applications
  • 02 October 2015
Be careful with hidden costs of cloud, warns City & Guilds IT director
Be careful with hidden costs of cloud, warns City & Guilds IT director

'It's very quick for people to put prices up fast,' Ian Turfrey tells Computing and Zerto web seminar

  • Business Software
  • 01 October 2015
Financial Conduct Authority wastes £3.2m on Oracle licences it did not need
Financial Conduct Authority wastes £3.2m on Oracle licences it did not need

FCA thought it was getting a bargain but then realised it didn't need all the licences it had bought

  • Government
  • 11 September 2015
Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft and others team up to develop royalty-free video formats
Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft and others team up to develop royalty-free video formats

Internet giants join forces to develop media formats - so they don't have to pay royalties to the likes of MPEG LA

  • Licensing
  • 02 September 2015
Coats plc CIO slams 'legacy vendors' SAP, IBM, Oracle for complex licensing
Coats plc CIO slams 'legacy vendors' SAP, IBM, Oracle for complex licensing

'These legacy vendors make life so darned confusing,' says Coats CIO Richard Cammish

  • Licensing
  • 25 August 2015
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