fbpx
 

Blog

Blog

The BSA has been busy!
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on The BSA has been busy!

In the last month the BSA has publicized 4 separate settlements resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars: 1. A Georgia woman was fined $250,000 for selling counterfeit software on eBay. 2. Argus Technical Services of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Total Administrative Services Corporation (TASC) of Madison, Wisconsin paid a combined $145,000 for having unlicensed copies of Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec office software installed on its computers. This lead came from BSA’s online tip form! 3. Author Solutions of Bloomington, IN […]

Nearly 70% of IT Executives Believe They Would Fail a Software Audit
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Nearly 70% of IT Executives Believe They Would Fail a Software Audit

Sixty-nine percent of IT executives believe that they would fail a software audit, according to King Research, a California-based marketing research company. Nearly 3 out of 4 surveyed believe they are not prepared for a software audit and 60% believe they have unlicensed software deployed. Over half (56%) track their licenses manually or not at all with less than 10% using a fully automated system. Not keeping track of licensing or poorly doing so is only asking for trouble, especially […]

BSA – Harassers?
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on BSA – Harassers?

We recently blogged about two UK companies – RedPC and Overclockers – getting in trouble with the BSA over alleged software piracy. CRN in the UK recently wrote a follow-up story to the original news report about the BSA‘s aggressive procedures claiming they were taking these companies to court for simply not filling in a form. As we have said before, being audited by a software vendor or an organization like the BSA is nothing to joke about – if […]

Where in the World is Miro Going to Be?
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Where in the World is Miro Going to Be?

Miro is excited to announce that we have been invited to speak at three conferences in the fall: Canadian ITAM Users’ Group (CITAMUG) September 30th Toronto, ON Topic: Smarter Oracle Licensing Virginia Oracle Users Group (VOUG) Conference October 9th Richmond, Virginia Topic: Managing Your Oracle and Other Software Assets to Lower the Total Cost of Ownership IAITAM Conference October 17th Marco Island, FL Topic: Vendor Management – Best Practices for Software Asset Management – From Oracle to Microsoft Check back […]

Microsoft Shifting Licensing Policy
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Microsoft Shifting Licensing Policy

There are a lot of rumors circulating this week about Microsoft changing their licensing policy from one where virtual machine is tied to hardware only to a model that compliments the mobility of virtual machines. Glad to see that they are rethinking its business model to keep up with virtualization. The current policy requires customers to reassign software licenses for Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 and Exchange Server 2007.  The code would need to physically move to a different server.  […]

Miro in IT Finance Connection
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Miro in IT Finance Connection

Want to see why and how CiOs and CFOs should work together?  I was invited to contribute my thoughts on that particular issue for popular newsletter IT Finance Connection.  I was inspired by the outlets focus on the IT-Finance connection.  When dealing with software licensing issues and software asset management, we’ve had to go up to bat with CFOs more often than not.  CFOs often will not understand the process that goes along with purchasing enterprise software, and often are […]

Microsoft’s New Volume Licensing Plan – Select Plus
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Microsoft’s New Volume Licensing Plan – Select Plus

Microsoft unveiled a new volume licensing plan for large organizations this month called Microsoft Select Plus. The program will allow companies to use a single ID to track their licensing contracts across the entire company. The program will mean bigger discounts as there will be the opportunity to increase your overall “points” – which are used to determine volume qualifications (you must have 500 points to qualify for Select Plus). You can still qualify for this new program if you […]

BSA Spends The Big Bucks
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on BSA Spends The Big Bucks

They aren’t joking around – Forbes.com reported today that the BSA spent $360,000 in the second quarter to lobby on patent reform, data security and other issues. They lobbied on new legislation that would create a “new coordinator for intellectual property issues” and improve federal efforts against piracy. This is a sign of things to come – with Microsoft, McAfee and HP behind this agency, they plan on taking piracy issues to the top – and cracking down on offenders. […]

In Archive