The smaller ASP niche players who are pioneering the market today will find themselves competing unfairly against the big names who will enjoy advantageous licensing deals and 'special relationships' with the likes of IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP...
Joris Kamen, founding executive director for SchoolNet Namibia, stated in a letter to Microsoft's East and South Africa regional manager: "The real issue for schools is not the cost of proprietary software licensing, but the challenges and costs...
It committed $1bn investment in the operating system in 2001, and supports the operating system on its xSeries servers. These include "its flexible licensing model, wide range of supported hardware platforms, the choice of support providers, and...
Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. These include business process outsourcing; software as a service (SaaS); low-cost development environments, such as...
Microsoft has said it is adding a new licensing option, this one dubbed Select Plus and targeted largely at medium-sized companies. The additional option runs counter to the trend at Microsoft, which has been working to scale back the number of...
Mismanaging software licensing can lead to extra costs and damaged reputations. This lack of visibility into licensing has significant implications on software purchasing decisions and can lead to compliance problems.