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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,…

NEO Brings AI-Powered OCR Extraction to License and Contracts Manager

By Shaun Ashbury | September 30, 2026

NEO now brings AI-powered OCR extraction to License and Contracts Manager. Drop in software contracts and purchasing documents in any…

The Infrastructure Data Problem Behind Every Licensing Risk

By Shaun Ashbury | September 29, 2026

Oracle's core factor table, its partitioning policy, and Red Hat's VDC subscriptions are three different rules with the same failure…

Red Hat Virtual Datacenter Subscriptions: Hosts, Guests and the Unregistered Systems

By Shaun Ashbury | September 24, 2026

Red Hat VDC is bought on the host socket-pair and covers unlimited guests on it, which is exactly why the…

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