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VMware customers take wait-and-see approach amid Broadcom changes

CIO Business Intelligence

When tech giant Broadcom acquired virtualization market leader VMware last October, it restructured licensing terms, laid off thousands of employees, and terminated partner agreements with resellers and service providers. Customers that paid for older perpetual licenses can continue to use the older vSphere versions they purchased, he said.

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NASA overspent $15 million on unused Oracle licenses as it failed to track usage

CIO Business Intelligence

The report attributes the huge over-expenditure to vendor lock-in and NASA’s unwillingness to risk a license audit by Oracle because of its lack of visibility into software management. These challenges expose the agency to increased costs because of penalties for violations of software licensing agreements, the report showed.

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IBM and AWS forge global alliance, streamlining access to AI and hybrid cloud solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

“The expansion beyond Denmark, France, Germany, United Kingdom and United States, where the software is currently available, will help make procurement easier for clients, streamline purchasing and create new efficiencies, while allowing them to use their AWS committed spend for IBM software purchases,” the statement added. “By

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. Hewlett-Packard’s insurance will pay out $100 million to those who purchased HP shares between Aug. July 1998: Autonomy’s IPO on EASDAQ values the company at $165 million.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

In space, no-one can cancel your software license NASA is a scientific marvel that does all sorts of cool and inspiring space stuff; it’s also a sprawling government bureaucracy with thousands of employees and computer systems under its umbrella.

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How BusinessObjects Can Re-ignite SAP’s BI Strategy Again

Paul Blogs on BI

During the first few years after the purchase, SAP sold a ton of BusinessObjects licenses and, for at least one or two years, they sold more BusinessObjects licenses than they did SAP ERP licenses. It’s been over 13 years since SAP acquired BusinessObjects and really stepped into the world of Business Intelligence.

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Nvidia AI Enterprise adds generative AI microservices

CIO Business Intelligence

is available for developers to tinker with for free as of now, and enterprise licenses can be purchased for $4,500 per GPU per year, or $1 per GPU per hour in the cloud. Nvidia’s AI Enterprise 5.0 Containers, Generative AI, Microservices, Nvidia