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Gartner predicts lower software licenses ahead (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) - Gartner Research, a key analyst company for the high-tech industry, took a look into its crystal ball and announced late last week that it sees wide changes in IT having a major impact on software licensing and the software market in general.

Affero: A new GPL for software as a service (CNET) - Free Software Foundation releases a variation of the GPL that brings its reciprocity obligations to software running as an online service.

Gartner: SaaS and open source pressuring proprietary software vendors to drop prices (CNET) - Open source is one of seven things pushing IT buyers to stop wasting money on proprietary software.

Software-licensing costs predicted to fall (ZDNet) - Gartner says vendors' profit margins will drop as SaaS, open source, and outsourcing give buyers more bargaining power. Software-licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade, as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Research firm Gartner predicts that vendors will find...

Software problem delays Dallas flights, fog hampers flights elsewhere before US holiday rush (Chinapost.com.tw) - DALLAS -- A software problem disrupted radio communications at both Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport control towers, while fog, snow and wind threatened to hamper one of the busiest U.S. travel holidays of the year elsewhere.

Open Source Software in Math (Linux Today) - "This opinion piece in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, argues that since mathematicians increasingly rely on software in generating their results, we should be increasingly concerned about the use of proprietary math software, since (a) not everyone has access to that software and (b) the code used by that software is usually closed-source, so the algorithms used can’t generally be ...

PS3 Software Development Price Cut Encourages Game Designs (ABC News) - Sony may hope that a price cut of software kit will encourage PS3 development.

Methodware releases new enterprise risk assessor software solution (Computer Business Review) - The frameworks for the Basel capital accord and the markets in financial instruments directive (MiFID) are incorporated into Methodware's enterprise risk assessor software solution, and are pre-populated with the full text of the legislation, broken down to the paragraph/subparagraph level and classified according to applicability.

DnB NOR selects Norkom's financial crime and compliance software (Computer Business Review) - Norkom's software to be rolled out across DnB NOR's operations in 11 countries to increase its protection against financial crime and to ensure effective compliance with national and international regulations including the third EU Money Laundering Directive.

Software firms set for jobs boost (BBC News) - Experts predict the creation of hundreds of new jobs in the computer software industry in Tayside.