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Netgiro Sees Payoff in Switching to DB2
White Paper But Netgiro got an unpleasant surprise recently, when Oracle "upgraded" its licenses as well. Netigro quickly switched to DB2 data management software from IBM, which offered the excellent database... [03 Jul 2008]
ABAC Compresses Costs with IBM
White Paper ABAC was looking to consolidate onto fewer servers and cut expenditure on operating system licenses, and selected IBM iSeries, a server already in use as the company’s ERP platform. With the assistance... [03 Jul 2008]
Churchill China Chooses IBM and Linux to Complement their Age-Old Craft
White Paper The company has the licenses to produce tableware and mugs for a host of high-profile names including Jeff Banks Ports of Call, Warner Brothers Harry Potter, Looney Tunes Tom and Jerry, the Royal Horticultural Society... [03 Jul 2008]
DB2 for PeopleSoft Applications: Cost/Benefit Case for UNIX and Windows Deployment
White Paper Five-year software costs including licenses, updates and support) for RISC/UNIX servers are on average 1.72 times higher for Oracle than for DB2.and Benefits. The choice of a database is one of the most important... [03 Jul 2008]
Develop and Deploy Multitenant Web-Delivered Solutions Using IBM Middleware, Part 1: Challenges and Architectural Patterns
White Paper Web-delivered solutions that follow a Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model - where customers subscribe to software and access it from a service provider site rather than get licenses and have software installed on... [12 Jun 2008]
IBM working on spinning magnetic memory
News Big Blue also makes chips and licenses intellectual property. IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin torque transfer RAM or STT-RAM. Under the current plan, IBM and... [20 Aug 2007]
Solution Provider Adopts Microsoft Software, Sees Profit Margin Rise by 30 Percent
White Paper Sysnet - a longtime IBM Business Partner - resisted the IBM focus on licenses and wanted a more solutions-based approach to selling. They found that developing solutions with tools from... [01 Jan 2007]
Marubeni Infotec Supports Software and Hardware Sales With IBM Web Infrastructure
White Paper The third goal was automating estimates for software licenses. The company evaluated various possible options for linking Wave Contact with the iSeries, and chose IBM WebSphere MQ. On October 1, 2004,... [17 Nov 2006]
Beauty giant gives IT systems multimillion makeover
Case Study Last July, the company, which owns cosmetics brands including David and Victoria Beckham, Sarah Jessica Parker and Rimmel, bought Unilever Cosmetics International for $800m, adding perfume licenses for brands including... [26 Apr 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Open source must move on
Comment Whether there is any money to pay for software licenses The resulting software, we are told, needs to be delivered and supported by a company that is perceived as a 'safe pair of hands', that is the likes of... [23 Dec 2004]
IBM: 'We will not sue' Linux
News However, patent licenses requiring royalty payments are prohibited for software governed by one major open-source licence, the General Public Licence (GPL). IBM has promised not to use its formidable... [05 Aug 2004]
SCO suits see victory…
News SCO had a $15m net loss for its most recent quarter, $4.4m of which was from its SCOsource lawsuits and largely unsuccessful efforts to get Linux users to buy SCO intellectual property licenses to avoid legal actions. [14 Jun 2004]
Open source group won't hand over SCO docs
News It asks the non-profit group for information about email and records of conversations between its staff, FSF founder Richard Stallman and Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds, about the enforcement of free software... [21 May 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Trojan horses, legacy systems and IBM's new clients
Comment The company has done about 100 legacy rescue assignments itself and licenses the use of its technology to other legacy rescue companies and consultancies. Thick and thin clients bad - IBM good? Add to... [17 May 2004]
Microsoft shares source code
News IBM authored CPL, and licenses offer the software development community the right mix of availability and commercial rights, he said. Despite previous initiatives that have allowed various pieces of code... [07 Apr 2004]