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Oracle Has Unveiled Disappointing Third-Quarter Results, with Total Revenues Down 1%
Mar 22, 2013Oracle has unveiled disappointing third-quarter results, with total revenues down one per cent to $9bn (£5.92bn) and new software licences and cloud subscriptions down two per cent to $2.3bn (£1.5bn). Oracle chief financial ...
Tags: Computer Products, Oracle, software
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BMC Software Is Set to Be Taken Private in a Takeover
Mar 22, 2013While Michael Dell struggles to take his eponymously named hardware vendor private, BMC Software is set to be taken private in a takeover by a consortium of private equity interests. BMC, best known for its systems management software, ...
Tags: BMC Software, Computer Products
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Microsoft Has Caved in to Public Pressure
Mar 7, 2013Software giant Microsoft has caved in to public pressure and will now allow buyers of Office 2013 to transfer their software licence to other PCs. The decision follows uproar over the draconian ratcheting up of software licensing terms by ...
Tags: Microsoft, Office 2013, PC
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The Government Expects to Slash Its Software Licence&Maintenance Bill with Microsoft&SAP
Dec 28, 2012The government expects to slash its software licence and maintenance bill with Microsoft and SAP by up to£150m by 2015,via a framework renegotiation. Under the deal the public sector will avoid recent Microsoft's licence fee ...
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Microsoft Describes The New OS,an Update to The Three-Year-Old Windows Server 2008 OS
Dec 26, 2012The general availability of Windows Server 2012 today will see Microsoft’s strongest push yet to target VMware users. Microsoft describes the new operating system (OS) – an update to the three-year-old Windows Server 2008 OS ...
Tags: VMware, Computer Products, Windows Server
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Microsoft Would Enforce Compliance with Software Licence Policies
Nov 12, 2012Microsoft has filed a patent which appears to describe camera-based monitoring of digital content users to enforce compliance with software licence policies. In other words,Microsoft seems to be patenting technology that allows the ...
Tags: files patent, camera, digital content users, patent application
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Safety Specialist First Choice Facilities Has Been Fined £18,000
Oct 29, 2012Safety specialist First Choice Facilities has been fined £18,000 for unlicensed software following completion of an acquisition. First Choice Facilities must also pay an additional £81,000 to buy the sufficient software ...
Tags: software, unlicensed software, First Choice Facilities, software licences
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How The Mobile Software Business Will Develop in a Market Where Open Source Grows Rapaidly
Oct 17, 2012Digia recently acquired the full Qt business from Nokia,Juhapekka Niemi,director,Digia,Qt,talks to Electronics Weekly about how the mobile software business will develop and grow in a market where open source has growing popularity. What ...