Cisco Enterprise agreements can provide long-term benefits and savings, but they must be scrutinized carefully case by case to see if they make sense. Cisco Enterprise Agreements (“EAs”) are becoming an increasingly popular vehicle for purchasing and consuming software products and services from Cisco. The general concept is that – rather than purchasing individual software products … Read more
Paying a fifth of the original software contract value every year for support, big fixes and updates does not seem like good value for money. A study from the Campaign for Clear Licensing (CCL) has found that the majority of organisations are blindly renewing software maintenance contracts. CCL’s research revealed that many businesses were renewing software maintenance contracts without assessing … Read more
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
8 Triggers of an Oracle Audit: And Tips to Avoid One The day has come, and it is not good news. You have an Oracle Audit. Oracle is notorious for having a very confusing licensing policy. It is vague and one misstep could possibly have you shelling out thousands in audit fees. Even with Oracles … Read more
Microsoft says cloud-based Office products made a huge contribution to sales growth. Microsoft sales increased by 17% in the final quarter of its current financial year, with cloud sales driving growth. The software giant reported total sales exceeding $100bn for the full year. Sales for the three-month period to 30 June 2018 reached $30bn, compared with $25.6bn for … Read more
There is constant pressure for IT to reduce cost and do more with less. Computer Weekly explores how this is being achieved in practice. Two surveys published this month have highlighted the gap between what customers want from their software suppliers and suppliers’ commercial drivers. First, a study based on a survey of 450 IT … Read more
There is no money for IT to help the business to innovate digitally, so CIOs should look at how their IT teams can maximize value from existing contracts, survey shows. Many business users are unhappy with the level of support they get from their main software providers, according to research from Vanson Bourne for … Read more
Business owners and even lawyers often repeat the same mistakes when they have to deal with tech contracts. Negotiating software and IT contracts isn’t a breeze. Poor negotiating will have you paying more than you should and ending up either more or fewer licenses than you need. If you can avoid these five mistakes when … Read more
