Subscription-based licensing lacking corporate excitement
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A new study sponsored by Macrovision, the Software and Information Industry Association, and the Centralized Electronic Licensing User Group has found that there is a discrepancy between where software companies think software licensing is heading and
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The software maker tweaks its small-business product, making several services free, but adding charges for domain name registration beyond the first year.
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The Internet most of us experience is not the World of Ends suggested by the end-to-end system design concepts around which the Net was originally architected and built.  Instead we have something that is faster-than-dialup, and faster-than-it-used-to-be; but is not The Net. Instead it is the part of the Net that's left in a pipe that's optimized for television, for one-way few-to-many "content delivery" and for locking users into client roles, while servers labor somewhere else. I just had FTTH (fiber to the home) installed. And, while it's way cool in some ways, it's also uncool in the way it prevents far more business than it generates for itself. It would be great if the carriers made it easy for businesses to grow on the Net, and then suppoted those businesses with services that helped those businesses thrive and grow. But the carriers would rather serve "content" to mass quantities of "consumers" while chaging prohibitive prices for "business-class" services. Hey, it's a mass media mentality, and they have every right to it. But...
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For Sun CEO Scott McNealy, subscription-based pricing is the most interesting part of Sun s business moving forward. He claims that the model works.
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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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The beta release of this YouTube competitor is easy to use, but lags in content.
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Software publishers and users are at odds about software licensing, according a study released Monday.
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Two top-tier license deals could push the company over the top.
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Not a whole latte love for the java giant.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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Open source doesn't necessarily automatically translate into better paid support for customers.  But it does offer a lot more options and aligns customers with vendors more tightly.
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Easily paid for, but it is worth the money?
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Media & professional: The corporation's global presence is threatened by the licence fee squeeze, writes James Robinson.
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The new Open Value Subscription program gives additional software license options to small businesses.
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Ziff Davis - Panelists at SoftSummit point to emerging alternatives to perpetual licensing but say the transition won't be easy.
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A Forrester study finds that corporate users are becoming increasingly frustrated with the license and maintenance costs of enterprise applications.
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Microsoft is using a subscription-based service to combat Linux in developing markets.