Cloud Computing's Other Achilles' Heel: Software Licensing »

Posted By lmacvittie 11 months ago in Science & Technology

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Enterprise software is in a category unto itself when it comes to licensing. It isn't like drive-by downloads: pay $39.95 through PayPal or a credit card and it's yours, deploy at will. Enterprise software licensing is a complex system of variables and equations that would make the heads of even third year calculus students swim.

Cloud computing introduces yet another variable, one that is nearly impossible for software vendors to account for and for customers to track.