Lindsay Clark

6 days ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Experts are warning of an increase in Oracle Java audits - as the tech giant nears its year end - following a switch to a per-employee license model that could see costs grow by up to five times. Lords of May-hem: Seven signs it is Oracle's year endREAD MOREOracle introduced a paid subscription for Java in September 2018, and in January 2023 decided to switch its pricing model to per employee rather than per user, creating a steep price hike for customers.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Users who signed up for the RISE with SAP deal are finding that the costs are higher than expected, and the service levels are worse, research from Gartner indicates. SAP customers number among the global organizations that are grappling with modernizing their enterprise application portfolio while moving it to the cloud.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

NASA's people analytics group has swapped its Neo4j graph database for Memgraph due to costs. David Meza, senior data scientist on the team, told a recent webinar that despite using Neo4j for around ten years, cost had become an issue. But at a recent webinar for Memgraph, he explained the switch to the in-memory graph database. "The biggest thing with Neo4j is that it is very costly for me. I can't afford that within my current environment," he said.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

Before Donald Trump became US president and the UK left the EU – both arguably the result of a new kind of online politics – a rather nervous-looking Mark Zuckerberg shuffled out onto a Harvard University lecture hall floor to offer some insight into the inner workings of a website he had created less than two years earlier.

1 week ago | theregister.com | Lindsay Clark

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has reached an agreement with Synadia, the company behind open source messaging system NATS, which will see it control the trademark, domain name, and GitHub repositories. The agreement follows a dispute over Synadia's decision to move its NATS code from the Apache 2.0 to Business Source License (BSL) in future releases.