Software industry moves to subscription licensing
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Software licensing is entering a period of &quot;dramatic and fundamental change&quot; as publishers aggressively move to subscription models, newly unveiled research has claimed.
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(InfoWorld) - Oracle will offer customers a range of simplified licensing models in an attempt to make pricing more consistent across its portfolio of products, developed in-house and acquired from competitors. Four basic licensing models will be available for all Oracle products, including J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Siebel applications, Oracle said Tuesday. The Component Model offers customers simple a la carte pricing, while the Custom Application Suite Model allows them to create their own bundle of applications based on their specific business needs. The Enterprise Applications Model is based on enterprise metrics, such as revenue or number of employees, and offers unlimited application usage. For small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) with revenue of more than $100 million, Oracle offers a SMB Model, which provides addition partner support in tools and pricing. Customers can use either the new pricing models or previous licensing models when purchasing additional products from old price lists. Newly released products will be offered under the new pricing models.
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Distribution system could help businesses manage software upgrades on wireless devices.
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The computer maker will pay affiliates that help sell downloads.
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Enterprises are opening up to open source alternatives to commercial software, panelists said at the SDForum conference âOpen Source Entering the Mainstream,â held in Santa Clara, Calif., last week.
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While software makers are planning to move more of their products to a subscription basis, 64 percent of the buyers surveyed still prefer the old way of doing things.
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Microsoft is offering a new subscription model to small businesses that will allow them to use the company&#39;s software for less cost than the currently available licensing model.
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Four basic licensing models will be available for all Oracle products, including J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft and Siebel applications.
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The software maker says the time has come to offer business software in versions that are both hosted and not hosted.
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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Latest licensing deal signals a move into the health-care arena.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft continues to tweak its volume licensing programs to make it easier for business customers to purchase the company&#39;s software in bulk.
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InfoWorld - Earlier this month the Business Software Alliance (BSA) upped the ante from $200,000 to $1 million for anyone who turns in a company that is illegally circumventing software licensing agreements.
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IBM is moving aggressively into the software space.
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Two top-tier license deals could push the company over the top.
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Flexible friend Microsoft has updated the licensing terms and conditions of its popular database for the benefit of virtualized computing environments.â¦
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Siebel Systems is mounting an effort to alleviate a major hassle that comes with licensing its customer information systems -- the labour-intensive task of tuning and tending to its software in complex computing environments.