Q3 results were mixed, but subscription licensing accounted for 81 percent of overall license bookings. Tableau published its third quarter financial results on Tuesday, reporting mixed results. Under ASC 605 standards, Tableau posted a diluted non-GAAP net loss per share of 7 cents on revenue of $239.6 million. Revenue was up 11 percent year-over-year, Tableau said, thanks … Read more
IBM hopes the acquisition of Red Hat will give its customers the tools to expand their use of cloud by creating and deploying cloud-friendly applications on a larger scale, a goal shared by IBM competitors Google, Amazon and Microsoft. IBM has made a bold move to blast its way into the enterprise multicloud world by … Read more
Microsoft follows through with its plans to raise Office 2019 prices by 10 percent. Microsoft may have just made Office 365 a more attractive option than it was previously thanks to Office 2019’s higher prices. Microsoft rolled out its on-premise Office 2019 suite for Windows and Mac in September. But rather than highlight major new … Read more
Gartner says IT services will be a key driver for IT spending in 2019, as the market is forecast to hit $1 trillion in 2019. Enterprise software and IT services lead the way as overall IT spending will hit $3.8 trillion in 2019, according to Gartner analysts. The numbers mean a shift from ownership to … Read more
Microsoft has truly embraced open source, in a radical shift rare for a big company—and developers should be very happy. Microsoft is perhaps the most impressive company on the planet right now. While it doesn’t (currently) dominate markets like it used to, Microsoft has managed something dramatically more difficult, something that portends future success as … Read more
Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options. While businesses generally take out an enterprise agreement for the provision and support of open source software products, such software is available for nothing. However, avoiding the associated distribution fees … Read more
Some see this as a giant leap forward for Microsoft and open source. A few, however, see Microsoft’s open-source patent move as just more of the same old, same old. When Microsoft surprised everyone by releasing its entire 60,000 patent portfolio to the open-source community, someone asked me if I thought the move would finally convince everyone … Read more
With progressively complex business models, where the use of software has become essential throughout business life, it can be a huge challenge for organizations to manage their software assets properly. The challenge can englobe them being licensed correctly, avoiding unnecessary overspend etc. Software vendors are becoming more reliant on license compliance audits. These have increased … Read more
Linux-savvy legal experts from the past and present weigh in on this knotty, open-source licensing matter. A side-effect of Linus Torvalds taking leave from Linux to work on how he deals with people and the new Linux contributors’ Code of Conduct (CoC) was one person suggesting that programmers forced out of Linux could take their contributed code out of … Read more
The company also committed to a successor version, ending speculation that this year’s release would be the last that doesn’t require a subscription. Microsoft recently launched Office 2019 for Windows and macOS, giving its most important customers – volume licensees – first crack at the application suite. Also on Monday, the Redmond, Wash. company committed … Read more
