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October 19, 2004 A study on software licensing shows that companies are getting ahead of their customers on subscription-based billing. TAGS: software license, Macrovision Corp., subscription, Scott McNealy, study, survey, software company, billing, pricing, Sun Microsystems Inc., conference

December 16, 2003 Software licensing sales help Oracle report a slight rise in quarterly revenue--a sign that IT spending is recovering, according to CEO Larry Ellison. TAGS: Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison, software license, earnings, PeopleSoft Inc., sign, information technology, software company, CEO

September 17, 2004 Know whether your copy of Windows is licensed? The software maker might ask you this next time you visit its download site. TAGS: copy, software license, Service Pack 2, software company, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

November 23, 2004 New hardware trends could push licensing costs up by as much as 50 percent over the next year, the research company says. TAGS: BEA Systems Inc., Gartner Inc., multi-core, software license, trend, research company, CPU, software company, server

October 19, 2004 At the SoftSummit conference, debate over subscription pricing, discounting and licensing practices comes alive. TAGS: Macrovision Corp., Freescale Semiconductor Inc., software license, software company, conference, billing, buyer, supplier, pricing, open source, Microsoft Corp.

February 11, 2005 As more cores end up on each chip, software licenses will increase in cost--but out of all proportion to the cost of the hardware. TAGS: multi-core, Oracle Corp., dual-core processor, hardware maker, Intel Itanium, software license, Intel, BEA Systems Inc., two-processor, CPU, HP, dual-core, Intel Pentium, software company, Microsoft Corp.

July 6, 2004 Talks between SAP and Microsoft underscore the harsh realities in the enterprise software market. TAGS: SAP AG, enterprise software, ERP, Henning Kagermann, PeopleSoft Inc., enterprise software company, software license, business process, enterprise, business software, merger, Oracle Corp., software company, manufacturing, Microsoft Corp.

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