Rich Gibbons 
Reuters report that the Israeli government is preparing not to renew their Microsoft licensing agreement for “Office, Windows, and server software”. According to the Israeli ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: August 24, 2018
Microsoft announced (June 25, 2018) licensing & pricing changes that will be introduced in the October 2018 price list. These will mean some actual price ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: August 3, 2018
Microsoft have released the first public previews of their next generation of on-premises Office server products – that is: Exchange Server 2019 SharePoint Server 2019 ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: July 26, 2018
SQL Server 2008/R2 and Windows Server 2008/R2 will go out of support in July 2019 and January 2020 respectively. Many organisations across the globe are ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: July 19, 2018
Oracle Corporation have long been famous for their database software, and their often tricky, sometimes flummoxing, usually expensive, licensing rules – and the audits that ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: June 27, 2018
We saw a few weeks ago that Quest Software have taken Nike to court over their refusal to settle up for license non-compliance discovered during ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: June 21, 2018
Quest Software are suing Nike, according to court documents filed on April 24, 2018. This is another case of an audit shortfall dispute making its ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 24, 2018
Added into the May 2018 Microsoft Product Terms, we have Server Subscriptions for Azure AKA on-premises software via the CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) program. What ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 8, 2018
One of the biggest ITAM stories right now has been SAP’s lawsuits against two of its customers – the drinks manufacturer Diageo and the Belgian ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 8, 2018
Microsoft are suing Community Health Systems (CHS), a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee, USA, for alleged copyright infringement and breach of contract. What’s ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 3, 2018
Oracle have announced that, “after January 2019”, Java SE 8 public updates will not be available for “business, commercial or production use” without a commercial ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: May 1, 2018
Microsoft are adding “down-level” support to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), making it available to protect machines running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Microsoft ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: April 10, 2018
We recently ran a Microsoft Q&A webinar. We asked people to submit their questions in advance and took them during the webinar too. The webinar ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 29, 2018
Windows Server 2019 is due for release in the 2nd half of 2018, and the preview is available now via the Insiders program. What’s new? ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 21, 2018
Microsoft, SAP, SUSE, Cisco, CA, and HPE have joined an initiative to help combat open source licensing difficulties; reducing the penalties forinadvertent non-compliance with open ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 21, 2018
GitHub, the online home of over 20 million developers, have open-sourced “Licensed” – their own, internal tool for managing Open Source licenses. What does it ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 21, 2018
Many companies use VMware as their virtualization technology. Many companies use Oracle as their database technology. It’s great that the two co-exist so well, making ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: March 9, 2018
What is Open Source? Open Source just means free, yes? No. Simply being free does not mean a piece of software is Open Source. The ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: February 23, 2018
We’re pleased to announce that our LISA training platform has a new addition – Oracle licensing training. In conjunction with long-time ITAM Review collaborator – ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: February 14, 2018
This article is a guide to Red Hat JBOSS Middleware. See also our guide to Red Hat Enterprise Linux here. Subscriptions A Red Hat subscription ... Read more
Written by: Rich Gibbons
Published on: February 6, 2018