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Desktop Virtualization: Confusion Over Software Licensing

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February 8, 2011
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Desktop Virtualization: Confusion Over Software Licensing When Dataprise Inc., an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualization project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualization's dirty little secret: No one -- including vendors -- seems to know how to license the software.
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