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Microsoft is making progress on several fronts that had it stuck a few months ago, but big investors aren't waiting to see if those positive indications will turn the company around. They want CEO Steve Ballmer fired.

Feeling pressure from recession-hit customers and rivals, Oracle Corp. Monday said it will give small, short-term discounts to enterprises that stick with aging versions of its software.

Oracle is offering customers license discounts, but don't expect any breaks on maintenance, experts say.

Virtualization has become one of the biggest trends in IT in the last eighteen months, with Gartner predicting it to be the single most important technology for IT Departments by 2010. As more and more organizations hop on the Virtualization bandwagon, the question that should be asked: Does virtualization really lead to significant cost savings?

Throughout his 20+ year career as the man behind industrial-rock act Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor has been no stranger to the ways of Creative Commons and digital distribution. In fact, he's let fans tinker with his musical creations as far back as the 1999 release of his two-disc album, "The Fragile," two years before the sharing and remixing licensing arrangements of the non-profit organization Creative Commons even existed.

Windows Vista may not be doing much for our bottom line, but Microsoft is making it easier to give you more choices when it comes to structuring volume licensing deals. That should mean you’ll have more avenues for generating revenue.

Starting on Wednesday, enterprises have the option to sign up for Microsoft's new Select Plus licensing program, a plan that one analyst said seems to be designed more to help the software giant than its customers.

Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome web browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.

At the beginning of its massive legal fight against Linux in 2003, The SCO Group Inc. imagined a day when companies like IBM, Novell Inc. and others would pay it large amounts of cash for alleged infringements on SCO-owned Unix code.