Jim Doe could very easily be you. He is a systems administrator at a large sales and service company with 5,000 employees, more than 100 software applications and dozens of branch offices. Business is ...

My ZDNet colleagues Ed Bott and David Gewirtz are both fed up with Microsoft over software licensing issues, albeit for different reasons. Ed is annoyed with Microsoft over its poor communication of ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover, industry executives said at the SoftSummit conference here. The trouble, they said, is the industry's rigid focus ...

The federal government spends approximately $19 billion per year on software. And mounting evidence from government watchdog groups reveals that much of this strategic expenditure is being needlessly ...

Someone at my seminar in Los Angeles last month asked about challenges that the cloud poses for software licensing. That’s such a broad and complex topic that it could warrant an entire seminar of its ...

The SAMOSA Act, reintroduced by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, would overhaul IT purchasing practices across the federal government.

It can be a juggling act to curb unnecessary costs on additional software licences while ensuring there are enough licences for all users. IT departments will often procure more seats than they ...

Business Suite nostalgia unlikely to ease customers' public cloud journey SAP experts are doubting the enterprise software ...

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are urging the Department of Veterans Affairs to do a more thorough job of tracking the commercial software licenses it holds — and actually uses — before acquiring additional ...

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFV group is thinking about something that perhaps not too many others involved in network functions virtualization (NFV) are thinking about: ...