The News Review:
- Google accelerates drive to sell more software
- Want to eliminate Psystar? License Mac S X
- Callidus Software and The Hahn Group Announce Partnership
- Nokia Hopes to Increase Qt Popularity With New License
- ak Park seeks outside probe of payments to software consultant
- Dish EchoStar and TiVo still tied up with patent
Google accelerates drive to sell more software
The Associated Press
is offering financial incentives to expand the sales network for the software it sells to businesses while restricting the use of a free alternative in its quest to make money on something besides Internet advertising. Under a new program to be unveiled Wednesday Google will sell a package of e-mail word processing and other office applications to third-party software resellers at a 20 percent discount in the United States. It will be up to the participating merchants whether the savings are passed along to their corporate customers said Dave Girouard who runs Google’s business software division. Google charges a $50 annual fee per user for its premium software service meaning the vendors will have to pay the Mountain View-based company $40 per user. Girouard suspects many merchants will maintain Google’s $50 base price to help defray their own overhead and shore up profit margins during hard times.
Want to eliminate Psystar? License Mac S X
CNET News CA
Psystar contends that because it bought copies of Mac S X from Apple and its partners it has every right to install that software into its own brand of computers and sell the hardware to its customers. Does it make sense? Not really. Much like Psystar’s contention that Apple was.
Callidus Software and The Hahn Group Announce Partnership
MSNBC
Joint customers willbenefit from best-in-class products and the combined in-depth expertise ofboth companies with implementations and project management ensuring thebest customer experience possible. By partnering with The Hahn Group Callidus Software further expands itsbroad. The partnership will enhance the ability ofCallidus Software’s.
Nokia Hopes to Increase Qt Popularity With New License
PC World
Applications are portable as source code and then compiled on each platform. Qt can be used to build applications for use on PCs mobile phones and set-top boxes among others. Currently the free and open source software version of Qt is licensed under the General Public License (GPL). It is also available under a commercial license for proprietary software development. But using LGPL developers can combine open-source code written using Qt with applications that use other licensing options both open and proprietary which wouldn’t be possible using GPL. By adding a more permissive licensing method Nokia believes Qt will be used more according to Sebastian Nyström vice president for Qt Software at Nokia. “So it’s pretty straightforward open-source logic here where more use and more contributions lead to a better product which again leads to more use.
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ak Park seeks outside probe of payments to software consultant
Chicago Tribune United States
Jennifer Grochowski of Chicago was originally hired in July 2007 to do an analysis of problems with implementing the PeopleSoft software package bought by the village in 2003. In the terms of the original contract Grochowski was to be paid $125 an hour up to $75000. The work was to be completed in six months. But after the original report was completed Grochowski continued to do consulting work well into 2008 to more fully implement the complex finance and accounting software even though a new contract was not approved by the Village Board.
Dish EchoStar and TiVo still tied up with patent
BusinessWeek
say they are pleased a patent infringement claim related to software made by digital video recorder maker TiVo Corp. will be reevaluated.