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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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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Under the License Included service model, you do not need to purchase SQL Server software licenses. License Includedâ??

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Emulating USB Dongle – Introducing HASP Dongle Emulator Software

Galido

Over the years the methods used by software developers and producers to limit the amount of users to a specific number in a licensing agreement have become more complex. The aim of copy protection is to protect the intellectual rights and financial investment of the individual developers and manufacturing companies. .

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

The new reactor will be the same size as Polaris, and include additional hardware and technology for putting energy on the grid. Helion Photo) The commercial project will largely be licensed and regulated by the state Department of Health , which previously approved three of Helion’s test devices. The Redmond, Wash.

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Fountainhead: Profiling questions nobody's asking re: cloud.

Fountainhead

M Apps where demand is highly counter-cyclical with other applications In other words, if an application runs out-of-phase with other apps in-house (say, backup apps that run in the middle of the night when other apps are quiescent) then it might make sense to keep in-house. Also, physical instances on ultra-high-reliability hardware (e.g.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Introducing a new line of Network Storage.

Sean Daniel

Only yesterday, a third product that I worked on over the past little while called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials was announced, on hardware provided by Western Digital. This is a great solution if you want to add client backup to 25 clients on any SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Standard networks, or just a standard server network.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 has RTM'd!!!

Sean Daniel

Dean Paron, Product Unit Manager, demos Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, source Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Blog More Details on the WMS Blog and SBS blog , but here is a snippit of that: Volume License(VL) customers will be able to download and purchase Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 on March 1, 2011. Online Backup. (5). Handy Apps.

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