In the world of software, a perpetual license means that users can run the program for as long as they wish. Software has traditionally been sold with a perpetual license. However, subscription-based ...

Cognyte Software is benefiting from sales growth, lower fixed and variable costs, and improved backlog conversion, leading to revenue growth. The company is making progress in the US market, with ...

Perpetual licenses once made sense, but today they slow innovation and raise risk. EOA and subscriptions are the engineering reality enterprises must face. It’s time for us to recognize that the ...

Broadcom Inc. is accelerating a plan to strong-arm VMware customers into signing up for subscriptions by killing off older, on-premises perpetual licenses to use the popular virtualization software.

Broadcom is discontinuing sales of perpetual licenses for over a dozen VMware products, the company announced this week. The move comes less than a month after the completion of Broadcom's acquisition ...

We saw the writing on the wall over a year ago and planned accordingly. 2024 will be the year we transition our entire fleet off Workspace One and onto Jamf (for iOS / iPhone) and Intune for Windows.

Danube Technologies Inc. is a small maker of software tools for Scrum and agile programmers. While Danube’s technology and audience is cutting-edge, its licensing model is old school. Several weeks ...

‘We are, in a sense, restructuring the contracts from perpetual to subscription. That’s why, depending on where you see it, you’ll see a slower growth at the beginning—if any—followed by a more rapid ...

EDIT: Changed the quote to the relevant bits. Previousl had less relevant text there. About 5 years ago, I bought Bria 3.5 for VoIP use. It was a great app, so I kept using it, and had no plans to ...

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