Our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek made a presentation on 19th October titled „Open source software and copyright law” on the Open Source BI Forum. As we were informed by the organizer of the conference Eszter’s presentation – based on the evaluation by the participants – was one of the three best presentations with equal scores. [...] A recently issued U.S. court decision has confused the parties who are interested in second hand software business, because, according to the decision, the appropriate wording of certain provisions of the software licenses can prevent users to sell the legally obtained software copies. An article from our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek in the PressRoom. [...] New version of ClientPack – loaded with a lot of new features – has been released. The SAM-Insights Client Pack is a complex utility, which contains the SAMScan data collector client. It lets the client to store the data collections offline and upload it when a network connection available. It [...] Ever bought a book or a DVD secondhand? A court verdict in the United States on the resale of software may mean that across the pond, you’d be breaking the law. Fortunatley, Europe has a different approach. The Budapest Business Journal asked our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek. Read the article in the PressRoom. [...] Nowadays it is not impossible to cover all software needs in a company with open source/free sorftware or freeware, but people usually lacks proper knowledge in licensing these products. The article from our consultant Sándor Nagy can be read on the Bitport business information portal [...] 2 consultants of IPR-Insights successfully passed a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams. The 70-671 – Designing and Providing Microsoft Volume Licensing Solutions to Small and Medium Organizations and the 70-672 – Designing and Providing Microsoft Volume Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations exam was not completely new for them, because they [...] SAMScan has a brand new extension that allows SAM-Insights to process software tags defined by the ISO 19770-2 standard. The ISO/IEC 19770-2:2009 standard establishes specifications for tagging software to optimize its identification and management. SAMScan, the software scanner module of SAM-Insights system has the extension that identifies and [...] The new, Linux edition of SAMScan is released. This new module enables SAM-Insights to run automated scanning of softwares installed on Linux. 5 consultants of IPR-Insights successfully passed a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam. The 70-673 – Designing, Assessing, and Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM) exam was not completely new for us, because four of us has passed earlier the 70-123 – Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Software Asset Management (SAM) Program [...] Reading the software licenses is very important, but your company’s compliance is not the only reason. Detailed knowlegde about the licenses might result in greater freedom or lower costs. The article from our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek can be read on the Bitport [...] | |