perpetual licensing

Tech Optimizer
February 20, 2025
EnterpriseDB (EDB) has released findings from a benchmark study by McKnight Consulting Group, showing that EDB Postgres AI outperforms Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, and MySQL in various workloads, including transactional, analytical, and AI tasks. Key performance metrics include being 150 times faster than MongoDB in processing JSON data, 4 times faster than MySQL in handling insert operations, and outperforming Oracle by 17% and SQL Server by 30% in processing New Orders Per Minute (NOPM). EDB Postgres AI also offers 7 times better price performance than Oracle and 6 times better than SQL Server. The study highlights the challenges enterprises face with legacy systems consuming 55% of IT budgets, which hampers modernization efforts. EDB Postgres AI aims to address these challenges by streamlining data infrastructure, reducing total cost of ownership, and facilitating AI capabilities in a secure environment.
Winsage
September 19, 2024
Microsoft released Office Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) 2024 on September 16, targeting Windows-based government and commercial clients with a five-year support window. This version operates entirely offline, unlike Microsoft 365, and lacks cloud-dependent features such as cloud storage and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Key applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are included, but Publisher will be deprecated in 2026, and Teams is not preinstalled. The Publish to Power BI feature has been removed from Excel, and ActiveX controls are disabled by default. New on-premises versions of Project and Visio will be available by October 1. Microsoft is cautious about perpetual licensing due to legal scrutiny and indicates at least one more release before the decade ends, influenced by customer demand.
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