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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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AI Weekly: TikTok’s algorithm licensing signals China’s play for AI dominance

Venture Beast

Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. This week, TikTok parent company ByteDance began licensing parts of its AI technologies to third parties through a new division called BytePlus. Register today.

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Android-powered 5G BlackBerry phone with physical keyboard is coming in 2021

TechSpot

OnwardMobility, a startup created to deliver comprehensive, secure mobile device solutions to government, enterprise and business clients has licensed the rights to develop, engineer and bring a new BlackBerry mobile device to market next year. The iconic BlackBerry brand is getting yet another lease on life.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

A move that is likely to unlock similar investments from competitors — Google in particular — and open the way for new or improved software tools for enterprises large and small. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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Grab Windows 11 Pro plus the top 8 Microsoft Office programs for just $60

Tech Republic

You really can’t beat getting The All-In-One Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2021 for Windows: Lifetime License + Windows 11 Pro Bundle for only $59.99 – it’s a steal. The post Grab Windows 11 Pro plus the top 8 Microsoft Office programs for just $60 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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SAP to buy LeanIX to advance process optimization with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

SAP has agreed to buy German enterprise architecture management specialist LeanIX, hoping its early adoption of AI will help with the massive task of migrating customers still using SAP’s legacy software on premises to the more modern S/4HANA in the cloud. We believe enterprise architects are no longer living in an ivory tower,” said Christ.

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