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

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM has successfully overturned a $1.6 A US Appeal Court this week overruled a lower court’s judgement in deciding that “BMC lost out to IBM fair and square.” IBM and BMC both develop software that runs on IBM mainframes. IBM appealed. IBM welcomed the ruling. “We billion judgement. Legal, Mainframes

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IBM and AWS forge global alliance, streamlining access to AI and hybrid cloud solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM has announced the expansion of its software portfolio to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs). Further, it also offers some monetization and potential cross-selling opportunities for AWS to the IBM and RedHat clients.”

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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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IBM adopts ‘Rise with SAP’ for internal ERP cloud move

CIO Business Intelligence

IBM is six months into a massive ERP modernization, moving core on-premises systems to Power servers running in its own cloud as it upgrades them from SAP’s legacy ECC software to the cloud-ready S/4HANA. In February 2022, SAP named IBM as its first premium supplier for Rise. Largest business segment first.

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Lawsuit claims IBM falsely used mainframe sales to boost AI, cloud businesses

CIO Business Intelligence

A lawsuit has been filed against 13 current and former IBM executives, including CEO and Chairman Arvind Krishna and former CEO Ginni Rometty, accusing the company of securities fraud — bundling mainframe sales together with those of poorly performing products in order to make them appear more profitable than they actually were.

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Linux Foundation unveils new permissive license for open data collaboration

Venture Beast

The Linux Foundation has announced a new permissive license designed to help foster collaboration around open data for AI projects. Read More.

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Generative AI headlines are outpacing enterprise adoption

CIO Business Intelligence

Despite the buzz that generative AI has stirred in media and boardrooms, we believe the headlines are outpacing adoption in the enterprise. For all of generative AI’s allure, large enterprises are taking their time, many outright banning tools like ChatGPT over concerns of accuracy, data protection, and the risk of regulatory backlash.