It's hard to believe that some of the most profitable software companies in the world--Oracle, Microsoft and SAP--are sitting on a licensing model that is untenable in the long run and will ...

Software audits are on the rise—a fact well-documented by Gartner. Software giants have long recognized that audits are a way to generate additional revenue, and vendors like Oracle, Microsoft and IBM ...

Every day we hear how the network is changing. Virtualization, Cloud, Software-defined Networking, the Internet of Things — it’s clear big transformational change is happening. The technical aspects ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers are trying again to pass a proposal meant to rein in the costs of the government’s software ...

A Coalition for Fair Software Licensing lobbying group has launched, aiming to remedy "anticompetitive software licensing practices." The group, consisting of "more than a dozen companies," was ...

For the second straight Congress, lawmakers in the lower chamber have advanced legislation to impose heightened transparency ...

Hate reading software licenses? Not knowing the language might have something to do with it. Here’s a quick glossary No two licenses are the same. even licenses for the same application can vary ...

As the global economy teeters somewhere between stagnation and recession, many companies are placing a renewed focus on cost management. Tech leaders, who hold significant portfolios of assets and ...

For most businesses, fully understanding their software usage and working out the number of software licences they own as well as calculating when they expire or need renewing is a constant source of ...

Stephen Shankland is reporting that Oracle has quietly cut database prices on some low-end servers using multicore processors. It's clear that Oracle's move is because Microsoft doesn't charge that ...