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A changing market landscape requires constant evolution: Our mission for VMware customers

CIO Business Intelligence

First, we remain steadfast in our decision to focus our resources on R&D, and continuing to develop a true, seamless private cloud experience for customers through VCF – one that is competitive with the public cloud. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days

CIO Business Intelligence

And we’ve completed the software business-model transition that began to accelerate in 2019, from selling perpetual software to subscription licensing only – the industry standard. VCF also makes life easier for developers by offering a self-service, private cloud experience, which enables greater productivity.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June).

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How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI

Vox

Advocates of technological innovation would say that AI technology is full of promise and we’d better not stifle that while it’s in the early days of development. The New York Times claims that OpenAI trained its model with copyrighted Times content and did not pay proper licensing fees. So which is it?

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A tale of two spaceships: How Seattle tech titans helped launch suborbital space tours

GeekWire

VSS Unity, the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane that took Branson and five crewmates beyond the 50-mile space milestone on Sunday, traces its technological roots to the SpaceShipOne rocket plane that was developed with a $28 million investment from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Generic license.

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DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. DataStax will use the investment to further its international expansion, channel growth and product development. Contact Us.

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Inside Nasdaq’s AI-fueled pivot to SaaS provider

CIO Business Intelligence

billion in 2022, derives roughly 30% of its business from its markets, trading, and exchange business — and about 40% from software sales and licensing. The company’s pivot to new tech development and SaaS began in 2021 and is keenly focused on the cloud, machine learning, and AI, as well as blockchain for tracking digital assets.

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