Jim Doe could very easily be you. He is a systems administrator at a large sales and service company with 5,000 employees, more than 100 software applications and dozens of branch offices. Business is ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover, industry executives said at the SoftSummit conference here. The trouble, they said, is the industry's rigid focus ...

By Paul Sandle LONDON, March 31 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator said on Tuesday it would again investigate ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

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 ...

Federal agencies are missing out on cost savings and making too many duplicative purchases when it comes to IT and cyber-related investments, according to a new Government Accountability Office report ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs entity tasked with centralizing software management across the agency is eyeing artificial intelligence to more swiftly drive cost savings by offloading licenses ...

In an open letter, the Campaign for Clear Licensing (CCL) has highlighted the risk to Oracle’s future earnings if it doesn't change its aggressive licensing stance. The letter attacked Oracle’s ...

The authorization to use software. Most software is licensed rather than sold, which means purchasers are never the actual owners of the software, although they may be able to use it without any time ...