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Microsoft in talks over cloud licensing complaint in the EU

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft is in talks with Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) to settle the trade body’s complaint about its cloud software licensing practices in the European Union (EU). The European cloud firms had called this a restrictive cloud licensing policy.

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The Huge Cost of Goliath’s Software Licensing Model for Enterprises

KineticData

The Huge Cost of Goliath’s Software Licensing Model for Enterprises. He’s a familiar leader of IT service management software. His suite of applications includes solutions for incident management, change management, asset management, and others. Have you met Goliath?

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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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The Huge Cost of Goliath’s Software Licensing Model for Enterprises

KineticData

The Huge Cost of Goliath’s Software Licensing Model for Enterprises Hey! He’s a familiar leader of IT service management software. His suite of applications includes solutions for incident management, change management, asset management, and others. Let’s Upgrade that Licensing Model! Have you met Goliath?

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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement

CIO Business Intelligence

Have you ever met an Oracle customer who happily pays the company’s fees for software support? There’s not much incentive for large vendors to provide prolonged support for software they’d just as soon discard into the end-of-life bin. Neither have we. Rimini Street is different. When was your last database health check?

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

CIO Business Intelligence

All Posts The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has overspent about $15 million on Oracle software over the past five years because it lacked a centralized software asset management practice, according to an audit report published by the space agency’s office of the inspector general (OIG).

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The early returns on gen AI for software development

CIO Business Intelligence

Generative AI is already having an impact on multiple areas of IT, most notably in software development. Still, gen AI for software development is in the nascent stages, so technology leaders and software teams can expect to encounter bumps in the road.