Free Software Farm Management
It can be very difficult to manage software licensing. Software licenses could be per PC workstation, per concurrent user, or even per CPU. It's different from software to software and they are usually dozens or hundreds of software out there.
The ultimate fear is that the company CIO gets the dreaded letter from a vendor requesting a software audit that could lead to additional budget-busting software license purchases in order to return to compliance. It's important for the CIO and CTO to take all of the necessary steps to have software licensing compliance in order to defend accusations of inadvertent software piracy.
Software Licensing Models
The first thing to do in order to assess the software compliance problem at the company is to understand how software licensing works for each vendor. It can vary considerably from one software vendor to the next. Some licenses are simple like Microsoft Office, which is licensed by PC. Others are licensed by the number of concurrent users.
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