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

CIO Business Intelligence

We are accomplishing this new engagement in two main ways: Standardizing the metric for our pricing across cloud providers to per-core licensing – the same metric used in our end-customer licensing – and providing license portability for VCF. The license portability feature we have added to VCF is key to this strategy.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

wow microsoft should be paying more than $1 billion for licensing then. December 2005 (10). November 2005 (8). October 2005 (9). September 2005 (15). August 2005 (2). July 2005 (9). June 2005 (7). May 2005 (14). Ruchira Sahan. Posted July 23rd, 2013. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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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. From September 2005 to January 2008, he served as chairman of the board of Integrated Device Technology. He has held this position since March 2006.

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How to strengthen the security of Oracle applications without relying on OAU

CIO Business Intelligence

While the OAU program gives customers access to security patches and application updates which may be delivered through periodic upgrades at a cost of typically 22% of the annual license fees, applying changes to software introduces risk of compatibility issues with existing applications and customized software.

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

Data Center Knowledge

Cloudera announced Sentry – a new Apache licensed open source project that delivers the industry’s first fine-grained authorization framework for Hadoop. December 2005 (10). November 2005 (8). October 2005 (9). September 2005 (15). August 2005 (2). July 2005 (9). June 2005 (7).

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Launching the Web 2.0 Framework - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Framework is released on a Creative Commons license, which allows anyone to use it and build on it as they please, as long as there is attribution with a link to this blog post and/ or Future Exploration Network. Collectively these cover the primary landscape of Web 2.0. As with all our frameworks, the Web 2.0

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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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