Licensing
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
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
Case study: Arup slashes licensing bill with Snow
Arup claims to have saved £4m on licensing by weeding out unused software
Most SAP licensees are ignoring S/4, pursuing hybrid IT instead
Two-thirds of survey respondents have 'no plans' to migrate to S/4HANA
Software companies need new licensing models - and here's why
It's impossible to accurately forecast software use
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
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
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
FAST threatens companies with demands for compensation over 'historic' unlicensed software
Federation Against Software Theft to impose retrospective penalties on corporate software pirates
Oracle loses yet another appeal against Google in Java API case
Judge throws out case and says Oracle lawyers acted in a "mischievous" way
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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
Struggling with Oracle licensing? Dump your systems integrator, suggests DVLA CTO
Systems integrators have no motive to reduce your licence footprint, says Iain Patterson
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
From Ada to Zuckerberg: History's most important IT people
Key figures in the development of technology through the ages
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
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
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
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
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