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Software asset management: Gartner says 90% of us will use open source in 2012...

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Jack Wallen at TechRepublic has written an interesting commentary on Gartner's recent prediction that by 2012 90% of all businesses will be using open source. THAT is one easy prediction to make. Check out the ZDNet Asia article. Here's why and here's how you can begin a drastic reduction in the money you currently invest in operating systems, software, implementation, support, and maintenance--today--while maintaining, and even improving, existing services--No need to wait until 2012.

Read on for more common sense solutions to software asset management and IT cost reduction problems.

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I’ll bet I can cut your software costs by ¼ with one briefing…

Software Asset Mgt. - SAM Benefits

Does your company have a formal step by step process for identifying, sourcing, testing, negotiating, and evaluating the functionality of a new software package? Do you blindly purchase any product that the software industry dubs “standard”?

Do you purchase hardware that the hardware builder has arbitrarily loaded up with software? Do you carefully control and monitor the entire acquisition process to ensure a good investment and positive business value return? Read on for an 18 point checklist that an effective asset manager can follow to maximize the quality of a given IT purchase.

The idea, here, is to SAVE money--not spend more on non-solutions. Our goal for this program is to put more cash IN your pocket, not take more out.

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