City of Toronto municipal licensing and standards director Tracey Cook speaks at ITWC's Technicity conference on Dec. 12, 2017. Courtesy Darrow Multimedia Inc.
Greetings from the Gartner Symposium, a gathering of over 9,000 senior IT executives and CIOs. There were several sessions on vendor negotiations as well as the ITExpo where close to 300 vendors were
Published on: October 11th, 2013 Catherine Aczel Boivie @itbusinessca
I recently went online to buy one of my favorite television series "La Femme Nikita", Season 5 (circa 2001). With it not being streamable on Netflix, I looked to Amazon and iTunes. Unfortunately due to
Published on: May 1st, 2013 Ashley Huffman @chicktech
Microsoft is boosting the price of a license that provides client access to Windows Server, SharePoint, Exchange and Systems Centre, but is sweetening the deal by giving buyers access to a new endpoint
Published on: March 31st, 2011 Jon Brodkin @itbusinessca
Windows 7 – Microsoft's replacement operating system for its heavily criticized Windows Vista – is expected to be a hit with small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) for many reasons.Chief among these are
Published on: March 16th, 2009 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Corporate software users are losing patience over complicated licensing and pricing schemes, maintaining that they do not fit their business goals, according to the recently released results of a Forrester Research Inc. survey.The
Published on: February 8th, 2008 Brian Fonseca @itbusinessca
The fault doesn't lie with the products themselves, or even with Microsoft, said Nauman Haque, an analyst with research firm Info-Tech. Buying licenced software is a complicated undertaking, he said, and organizations that
