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Red Hat initiated open-source projects which use GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1, will be expected to add GPLv3’s cure commitment language to their licenses. From outside programming circles, software licensing may not seem important. In open-source, though, licensing is all important. So, when leading Linux company Red Hat announces that — from here on out — all new Red … Read more
A new open-source license addendum, Commons Clause, has lawyers, developers, businesses, and open-source supporters fighting with each other. Most people wouldn’t know an open-source license from their driver’s license. For those who work with open-source software, it’s a different story. Open-source license fights can be vicious, cost serious coin, and determine the fate of multi-million dollar … Read more
Vital and expensive as it is, IT managers are reluctant to mess around with their software setups — but are there ways to shave costs without hassle? Many organizations can cut spending on software by as much as 30 percent with some basic software license optimization best practices. According to analyst Gartner, global software spending … Read more
Microsoft’s Azure Service Fabric gets a containerized makeover with Azure Service Fabric Mesh. Microsoft’s Azure platform services have always offered support for microservices. In fact, Azure Service Fabric has been there from the start. Initially supporting Azure’s SQL services, it’s now a foundation of much of the Azure platform, along with Cosmos DB. You’ve been able to use Azure … Read more
Both firms will give away software that gave them a competitive edge, a reflection of changing times. Microsoft and Salesforce have separately announced plans to release some key software products as open source for anyone to use in their data centers. Microsoft plans to release its Open Network Emulator (ONE), a simulator of its entire … Read more
More than $1m is lost to cyber crime every minute, a report reveals, underlining the increasing and significant threats businesses face online. Every 60 seconds, close to $1.14m is lost to cyber crime, and 1,861 people fall victim, according to a report by threat management firm RiskIQ. Bad actors continue to proliferate online, the report … Read more
Cisco’s fiscal year 2018 results say deferred product revenue related to recurring software and subscription offers increased 23 percent over 2017. Cisco’s strategy of diversifying into a more software-optimized business is paying off – literally. The software differentiation was perhaps never more obvious than in its most recent set of year-end and fourth quarter results. … Read more
As IT departments prepare their 2019 budgets, we assess how to avoid paying too much for cloud services. Infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) free business users from the constraints of IT, but without suitable oversight, costs can quickly get out of control. As initial costs are relatively low, business managers can sometimes … Read more
Microsoft may be close to offering multi-session remote desktop access to Windows 10 Enterprise, allowing for as many as 10 simultaneous connections. Hints appeared last week that Microsoft may be close to offering multi-session remote desktop access to Windows 10 Enterprise as an alternative to, and complement of, Windows Server. The appearance of “Windows 10 … Read more
Cisco says integration of its network, device and cloud security platforms with Duo Security’s zero-trust authentication and access products will let customers quickly secure users to any application on any networked device. Cisco today laid out $2.35 billion in cash and stock for network- identity, authentication and security company Duo. According to Cisco, Duo helps protect … Read more
