IBM and Oracle must change software pricing - AMD
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| AMD expects companies like Oracle and IBM - devising Byzantine pricing
| metrics for their software in virtualized environments - will be forced
| to compromise on licensing by their customers or risk losing business to
| open source.
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| Lewis believes open source - particularly Xen and the Linux, Apache,
| MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python LAMP stack - will provide leverage on closed
| source vendors. Without that leverage, closed-source vendors' pricing
| will delay uptake of virtualization at large, as only certain types
| of applications move to virtualization.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/22/amd_oracle_ibm_licensing/
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