Is software licensing for virtualization fair?
Software licensing just hasn’t caught up with the realities of the modern IT Operation. Software vendors rightly need to monetize the customers valid use of their intellectual property, however it is in neither parties long term interests to increase operational costs by doing this.
Many software licensing terms focus on an actual link between the application or infrastructure software and the physical hardware. In the cloud, the objective is to break that link and completely isolate the licensed code from any connection to the underlying hardware. This gives the modern IT operation great flexibility to scale up and down, better resilience and higher asset utilization.
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