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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

commentary Market research firm IDC believes the end is near for traditional licensing models. In a recent report, it predicted that over 50 percent of enterprise software vendors were likely to ...

Software-licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade, as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Research firm Gartner predicts that vendors will find themselves ...

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Software licensing practices must change to accommodate economic and technology trends, stressed officials at the SoftSummit conference here on Thursday. Officials from Macromedia, ...

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan ...

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 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) have brought back the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software ...

Broadline distributors have also added vendors or revamped their online sites to help simplify the licensing process and streamline vendor communications for solution providers. On the consolidation ...

This month, Microsoft president Brad Smith was confronted by the US House Committee on Homeland Security, in a hearing over the cybersecurity woes that have plagued the government as a direct result ...

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 ...