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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

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 ...

ValueLicensing case rumbles on as Windows giant appeals against copyright judgment Microsoft's From Software Assurance (SA) ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Many organizations can cut spending on software by as much as 30 per cent with some basic software license optimization best practices. According to analyst Gartner, global software spending is set to ...

Audits mean it's not just the IT department that should be keeping an eye on software As vendors tighten up on software licensing, CFOs are being encouraged to get more involved in licence management.

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 ...