Elastic’s chief product officer Ken Exner talks up the company’s expansion into observability and security and how it balances innovation with community contributions and monetisation Continue ...

So how are companies becoming even more creative in their software pricing and licensing? Although a lot of innovation is starting to happen, much more appears to be in store over the next couple ...

The agency is examining allegations that Microsoft is potentially abusing its market power, including its Azure cloud service ...

FOSS bods file amicus brief in hope of preserving core GNU tenet of freedom forever The Free Software Foundation (FSF) on Monday backed a lone developer's brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ...

The probe could reshape AI competition, influence software licensing rules, and impact enterprise technology strategies.

Over the last two decades, software-as-a-service (SaaS) has become the dominant form of software transaction. However, SaaS contracting forms ...

The European cloud service providers’ association also warned all is not well in its drive to get Microsoft to level the software licensing playing field. The European Cloud Competition ...

“We are going to focus on going through a transition, and a rapid transition, from [VMware] perpetual licensing to subscription,” said Tom Krause, president of Broadcom’s software ...

If you have already a potential licensee for your software and you want to license such software to a third party, we will first evaluate whether ETH Zurich can enter into an agreement with the ...

while certain software vendors have a tendency to change license terms with minimal advance notice. This policy from TechRepublic Premium provides guidelines for making sure the software on ...