The leading cost factors considered include: software management costs (65%), software licensing costs (63%) and IT labor costs (52%).
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Chase pays a software licensing fee to Entrust to generate its certificates, which are stored and retrieved from a server.
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Cisco Cius thereby supports data center consolidation and reduced software licensing costs.
If they can replace 100 to 200 Sun servers or x86 servers with two or three PURE systems they will have lower hardware costs, less to pay in software licensing, plus savings in the real estate, power and cooling.
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The Latitude 10 does not require new mobile device management or software licensing, supports new and legacy Windows applications, is compatible with Adobe Flash and connects with existing peripherals to allow end-users to work and play the way they always have.
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It was offered tools to track utilization in servers, and typically found that several were no longer doing anything, but nobody knew for sure so they were left to run, with all the attendant power, cooling, real estate and software licensing costs.
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TiVo has increased research and development by 36% in the past six months to ensure it can handle the software licensing deals it's been rapidly signing with smaller cable firms such as RCN, Charter, Spain's Ono, France's Canal and Suddenlink, all of which want to use TiVo to leapfrog into the world of advanced television.
On one hand it sold the PDA itself, and on the other it was attempting to build a software business by licensing its PDA software to companies with which it would essentially compete on the hardware side.
It is dissatisfaction with the ability of today's phones to carry targeted advertising--rather than a thirst for software-licensing revenues or desire to build cool gadgets--that is pushing Google to take on the mobile-phone market, industry sources say.
Earlier this year Tata Consultancy Services began licensing software that speeds up the process of identifying molecules that might make for promising drugs.
The ruling deals with a relatively narrow issue: Microsoft's alleged violation of a 1995 consent decree preventing the company from tying applications software to the licensing of Windows.
These newer consoles did face supply problems but PlayStation 2 still appears to dominate, which is why Sony keeps nurturing that market by creating and licensing software for PS2 owners.
For its part, Sun got a potentially large software platform and the licensing fees that go with it.
She built FastPDF with open source software, so no licensing of maintenance fees, and hosted the service with an outside firm.
ClearPlay has discussed licensing its software for classroom use, he says.
Asked if he'd consider licensing his software to other companies or individuals looking to create filters like these that they could sell for home use, Aho says no.
In 2008, Google launched the open-source Android operating system, licensing mobile software to any and all device makers (at no cost), allowing others to tweak their code and innovate without permission.
The new SDN strategy will entail a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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The new SDN strategy, as outlined in January, entails a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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Some software vendors, particularly that one in Redmond, have specific licensing fees for when their software is used (or sold) in a hosted environment.
Last October the U.S. Justice Department began an investigation into whether IBM had stymied competition by blocking competitors from licensing its mainframe software.
If not, those decisions will get harder: BlackBerry may need to focus on licensing its BB10 software to other device manufacturers, as CEO Thorsten Heins hinted at earlier this month.
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Net2Phone aims to earn licensing fees for its software or take a cut of transactions.
The software house is shifting to a licensing model for Star Wars games, reportedly "minimizing the company's risk" while expanding the range of games on offer.
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Most of the firms peddling this model, such as Amazon and Google, use open-source software, since having to pay licensing fees would make the business unprofitable.
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As the number of cloud service providers has expanded, major ISVs (independent software vendors) have created new licensing models or adjusted existing ones to provide additional flexibility.
Blinkx got a head start by licensing Autonomy's software, which was designed primarily for use within large companies. (Autonomy has a 10% stake in Blinkx.) Chandratillake started with a dozen programmers to refine the software to better locate and categorize video for the average viewer.
To escape the clinch, Balsillie has begun licensing his well-regarded software.
It currently provides a 9% tax deduction from net income for businesses engaged in "qualified production activities" in the U.S. Those activities include manufacturing a product, selling, leasing or licensing it, and engineering and software activities related to that production.
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The company said if that does not change, it expects to support DVD playback by licensing technologies directly to PC makers and software vendors.
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