It can be a juggling act to curb unnecessary costs on additional software licences while ensuring there are enough licences for all users. IT departments will often procure more seats than they ...

Ryan Triplette, the executive director of the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing, said the ‘sheer force of will’ is improving federal software licenses.

ZDNET's key takeaways Per-seat software licenses may soon be obsolete.Most software will soon be purchased by agents.Prepare for consumption-based pricing models. Goodbye, per-seat software licensing?

Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided through some sensible precautions, says Manek Dubash. IBM was embarrassed after it launched its ...

Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Many government agencies struggle managing software licenses in an effective manner, overspending chunks of their million and billion dollar IT budgets on unused or redundant programs. Despite its $31 ...

(“CMG” or the “Company”) (TSX: CMG) today announced that it has entered into a multi-year software licensing agreement with ...

For over 30 years, open source software (OSS) has formed the backbone of the technology industry. Today, it is nearly impossible to find a computing device that does not utilize an open source ...

UK tribunal says Microsoft licenses can be legally resold• Ruling rejects Microsoft’s copyright claim; company plans to ...

Otherwise new hardware trends will push costs up over 50 per cent… Emerging trends in IT hardware could force software licensing costs up by more than 50 per cent over the next year unless businesses ...