Total software license, database sales, and application license revenues all fell short of expectations.
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Take the canny software license Stallman co-created: the Gnu General Public License.
On an IBM-mediated sale, the software license revenue is split 50-50.
The company has yet to announce if the functionality will be available for those who purchased a software license versus those who subscribed to the Creative Cloud service.
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They will not believe that SAP wants to make them rich, only that SAP wants more software license revenue in return for a few crumbs left on the table.
This is why large companies strongly prefer to buy hundreds or thousands of apps at a time via a volume software license that is paid for via purchase order, not credit card.
In the past seven years, software license contracts have grown by 600 words, a 40% jump, while the median length of bank disclosures for a checking account is now a whopping 111 pages.
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The CIO at Barclays Capital, a few generations back, told me he wanted a software license with the same pricing, expiration date and use terms in London, New York, Tokyo, Sidney and other offices.
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Appeals, contestations, audit cost (both provider and insurer driven), reconciliations, contract loading, software license costs, as well as general administration, network development, marketing, commissions and profit all are major factors why private insurance administrative costs are higher.
But to get anywhere, Apple needs to quickly remake its OS to run PC software and license its hardware to anyone willing to make it.
Because the proposal defines a software purchase as buying a license to use the software on specific agreement terms, it differs from copyright law that governs the purchase of software copies.
Apple, another major smartphone maker and a longtime holdout from CES, also doesn't license software to vendors.
But that doesn't mean companies looking to license software or hardware that would allow for movie remixes couldn't do so elsewhere--especially since there's some question about who, exactly, holds the patent on DVD-filtering software.
This guy badgered me about how Microsoft was going to completely change the world with this tablet PC software and eliminate all notebook computers, and Apple ought to license his Microsoft software.
SaaS works on the on-demand principle, which means that the enterprises can license only the amount of software required versus the traditional way of procuring the license per device.
Any software covered by the license must be shared, even when changed or added to.
It's a daring strategy, because he has little choice but to license the software to the same rivals trying to take away his hardware business.
In the future, Microsoft could also license Kinect software to TVs and cable set-top box makers just like Google embeds its Android software in TVs to come out with Google TV.
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Afterward, people wanted to license his software and this led to the start of his own business and an entrepreneurial journey that would bring him around the world and ultimately to MIT where he met is Locu co-founders.
For now, Microsoft can hide behind the software industry's shirk-wrap license policy, which disclaims all liability for software errors.
Two-thirds of those software-related sales come from license updates and product support streams that Web-based software likely will choke over time.
Research In Motion could license the QNX software it plans to use for all of its high-end phones.
The German court awarded Motorola the right to force Microsoft to recall and destroy its products following a complaint that the software firm had failed to license two patents necessary to offer H.264 video coding and playback.
The Justice Department approved that takeover in April with a few conditions including requiring Google to license the travel software to competitors and banning it from entering into agreements that would prevent airlines from offering services like seat selection to rivals.
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In a USENIX session on this subject, Apple's senior software engineer Fred Sanchez said that Apple was wary of software licensed under the popular GNU Public License (GPL), because of the restrictions placed on incorporating the code into commercial software.
Ms. Shouraboura says she aims to license Hointer's software and technology to traditional retailers.
The company charges an upfront license fee for its software.
Software revenue was driven by 2% license growth, 16% support growth, and 65% growth in services.
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