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Companies must consider the cost of software upgrades. Not keeping up can hit your bottom line, hinder productivity and make ...

Computer technology has experienced exponential growth since the 1960s and '70s, with computational capabilities and software innovation roughly doubling in power every two years. At such a rapid pace ...

Software purchases aren’t like most other sales. Long after a company pays the shelf price, it still receives annual invoices for software maintenance—the fee vendors charge for patches, upgrades, and ...

Many IT managers are becoming increasingly agitated by the ballooning costs of maintaining packaged business applications and the relentless efforts of software vendors to push them to upgrade their ...