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3 customer examples of increased Oracle audit activity in 2022
Evan Boyd, Vice President of Business Development at Software Licensing Consultants discusses the increased Oracle audit activity they saw last year. In the face of inflation and economic slowdown, Oracle has been trying to pad its ... -
12 days of ITAM: Day 12 - IBM in 2023
The year ahead with IBM includes many areas to watch, says Miriam Redding, Director at Navigate Clear. IBM’s cloud strategy is a hybrid cloud approach with a focus on industry specific solutions. IBM CloudPak’s are the ... -
12 days of ITAM: Day 6 - Microsoft licensing
12 days of ITAM would not be complete without tackling everyone’s favourite software publisher… In the final quarter of 2022, Microsoft got busy. There have been a dizzying number of changes, announcements, and updates flying out ... -
IBM price increases coming in 2023
Happy New Year from IBM. Here are your new prices More software “price harmonisation” coming from a Tier 1 vendor… following on from Microsoft’s recent announcement, IBM is increasing its pricing by as much as 24% ... -
“Price Harmonization,” - Microsoft price rises coming in 2023
Microsoft price rises are coming in 2023. In an effort to “become more agile”, Microsoft have announced they will begin a new process to “harmonize” their global pricing to the US dollar. This will, according to ... -
Java audits are coming: Podcast episode 120
In this episode of the ITAM Review podcast AJ Witt & Silke Henderson-Stuenkel of Matrix42 discuss what’s new in Oracle Java licensing including. Introduction to Oracle Java licensing Differences in license agreements Java license risk exposure ... -
News roundup - September/October 2022
Big fine for Ford. Oracle and Microsoft launch new products, and Adobe sheds Pantone. Here’s your ITAM news roundup for September and October 2022. Ford hit with $105 million fine for software licensing breach – from ... -
Biggest Microsoft licensing changes in years
They’ve been teased for almost 5 months and they’re finally here, Microsoft’s changes to cloud and virtualisation licensing for Windows Server, Windows 11, and desktop applications. These are the biggest Microsoft licensing changes in years… and ... -
Adobe to acquire Figma
Adobe have announced their intention to acquire a company called Figma – for $20 billion dollars (insert Dr Evil gif here!). https.//pixabay.com/photos/shopping-online-e-commerce-fashion-4000414/ What does Figma do? That’s a great question and I have to admit, I’d never heard ...