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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. OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

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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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Appeal court overturns $1.6bn mainframe software ‘poaching’ ruling against IBM

CIO Business Intelligence

The Master Licensing Agreement (MLA) and an Outsourcing Attachment that governed the business relationship between IBM and BMC were amended in 2013 and 2015. BMC filed a lawsuit claiming IBM had violated their master licensing agreement by convincing AT&T to switch over to Big Blue’s software. IBM appealed. billion judgement.

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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO Business Intelligence

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI touches every aspect of the enterprise, and every aspect of society,” says Bret Greenstein, partner and leader of the gen AI go-to-market strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gen AI is that amplification and the world’s reaction to it is like enterprises and society reacting to the introduction of a foreign body. “We

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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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IDC: Pace of enterprise applications sales will increase next year

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC forecasts the growth rate of enterprise applications software sales will pick up in 2024, and remain steady through 2027, despite a dip this year as a result of CIOs continuing to pull back on spending due to economic headwinds. of a projected $483 billion enterprise applications software spend in 2027, according to the study.