The way David Baka views it, his Brecksville-based software source code provider is selling a similar promise as traditional insurers. Essentially, it's better to have the protection his company ...

Company A buys a software license from Company B, a startup. Company A crosses its fingers that Company B doesn’t go bankrupt and disappear, along with the source code for Company A’s mission-critical ...

It’s rare that a licensor company will consider placing a dollar value on a future breach of its intellectual property rights. But that’s what happened in a recent software license infringement case.

A major issue that CIOs wrestle with is the possibility that key processes could experience significant downtime should their software fail in some way. CIOs usually know where the deficiencies are, ...