Software licensing models must be updated to keep pace with the way in which they are used. That was the conclusion of the CIOs attending Computing's most recent IT Leaders' Club in the Four ...

Goodbye to perpetual licenses, hello to new models One model we’re already seeing less of though, is the perpetual software license, once the dominant license in the software industry.

Software Development News Software licensing may go pay-for-use - SD Times Several companies are reworking their licensing agreements to make them less focused on users and more focused on uses ...

NetApp has unveiled what it describes as an entirely new storage model which it claims will see the end of the industry's "ridiculous" previous set-up. NetApp's FlashForward initiative launches today ...

The decision means Redis will cease to be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) licensing model. Under the new licensing framework, cloud service providers ...

“[Microsoft is] not only forcing customers toward a monolithic cloud model but also limiting ... the a request by the Coalition for Fair Software Licensing, a lobbying group supported by IT ...