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Contract Compliance Analysis Is Now Live in LCM

By Shaun Ashbury | October 22, 2026

NEO's contract analysis now lives in License and Contracts Manager as an interactive view, replacing the PDF report that used…

SQL Server 2019 vs 2025: Features, Licensing and Pricing Comparison

By Shaun Ashbury | October 22, 2026

SQL Server 2019 left mainstream support on February 28, 2025. The per-core minimum is unchanged. What moved is Standard edition's…

Windows Server 2025 Essentials vs Standard: Limits and Licensing

By Shaun Ashbury | October 21, 2026

Windows Server 2025 Essentials is sold by OEMs only, as a server licence for one single-socket server of up to…

Introducing the LICENSEWARE Wiki, an Open Encyclopedia of Software Licensing

By Shaun Ashbury | October 20, 2026

The LICENSEWARE Wiki is now open in beta: a free encyclopedia of software licensing, with every fact cited and traced…

Windows Server 2019 vs 2025: Features, Licensing and Pricing Comparison

By Shaun Ashbury | October 20, 2026

Windows Server 2019 left mainstream support in January 2024; extended support runs to January 2029. The licensing model has not…

LICENSEWARE Now Connects to CrowdStrike, Defender, SentinelOne, Jamf Pro and Fleet

By Shaun Ashbury | October 16, 2026

LICENSEWARE now connects directly to CrowdStrike Falcon, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, SentinelOne, Jamf Pro and Fleet, and a new Data…

Adobe Named-User Seats: Reharvesting Before the VIP Anniversary

By Shaun Ashbury | October 15, 2026

Adobe named-user seats can move between people at any time, but the quantity you pay for changes once a year,…

SQL Server Standard vs Enterprise: Features, Limits and Licensing

By Shaun Ashbury | October 14, 2026

SQL Server Standard and Enterprise run the same engine. What separates them is the per-instance core and memory cap, high…

When AI Can Rebuild Any App: Licensing, IP and Vendor Lock-In

By Shaun Ashbury | October 8, 2026

AI-assisted projects rebuilt Photoshop, Word, Excel, AutoCAD and Pro Tools as open source in about a week. What that means…

VMware vs Hyper-V: Licensing, Features and Migration Compared

By Shaun Ashbury | October 8, 2026

Hyper-V has no hypervisor licence of its own; it rides on Windows Server Datacenter, unlimited VMs included. VMware, under Broadcom,…

Oracle Database 19c vs 23ai: Support, Features and Licensing Compared

By Shaun Ashbury | October 6, 2026

Oracle Database 19c and 23ai are both current Long Term Releases with support past 2029. The core licensing model is…

SQL Server on VMware: Licensing the Host, the VM or the Cluster

By Shaun Ashbury | October 1, 2026

SQL Server on VMware can be licensed per VM, per host, or per cluster, and only one of the three,…

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