First off, a happy 2005 to everyone, and I wish you all a prosperous new year and express my condolences to those affected by the recent tsunami. This week’s article concerns the resurgence of the ...

These days, businesses are no longer as willing to accept the status quo in their relationships with technology companies. Instead, there’s a movement underway where enterprises actively seek partners ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Software publishers and users are at odds about software licensing, according a study released Monday. While software publishers aggressively move to subscription-based pricing, enterprises prefer ...

This software subscription model may not be new for IT but I believe will be a new licensing trend for the major telephony players and represents an alternative sourcing model worth consideration. As ...

If you're in the early stages of starting a business, you'll need to price your services and products. When dealing with offerings like software or online content, you may also have to select a ...

Per-seat software licenses may soon be obsolete. Most software will soon be purchased by agents. Prepare for consumption-based pricing models. Goodbye, per-seat software licensing? Goodbye, software ...

In contrast to the GPL, the BSD’s goal is to pass on control to those who adopt it, thus making the terms of the BSD license more pragmatic, generous, flexible and an overall better choice for today’s ...

Licensing models and grid computing are about to collide. Don’t take my word for it, though. Read what Larry Ellison said to me when I interviewed him last month. “You will see an alternate pricing ...

Software giants Oracle Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. are among the vendors that offer corporate customers the option of licensing software on a subscription basis. But many users ...