Consider this: In many operating system & software licenses, you must pay an additional fee for multiple processors.  Right now, you're only paying for a single processor on your desktop & notebook systems.  How long do you suppose it'll take the software industry to begin charging extra for dual core systems? 

Read your licenses.  Make sure all new licenses clearly exclude dual core systems from multi-processor licensing schemas.  Or, your could ignore this advice...

According to MMcMarketing, Research & Consulting, one in five workers plan to leave their jobs in 2006 to improve their work/life balance. How will this impact your job?

Primarily, when a majority of workers leave their jobs they take with them an enormous amount of strategic information. In terms of your software asset management, copyright compliance, technology asset management, purchasing, negotiations, advanced clerical & other knowledgeable personnel, the information they walk away with could spell disaster.

Add this statistic to the (up to) $200,000 rewards for reporting copyrighted product mis-use and virtually any knowledgeable disgruntled ex-employee has a very handy way to "get even" with management. One quick, painless phone call to any one of the dozens of toll-free, confidential anti piracy hot lines and you could be in a heap of trouble while they cash the reward check.

Or, how about that two hour peak minutes call they made to Japan on their corporate cell phone - the one that personnel forgot to take back - on their way out the door?

Or, can you figure out why they include certain clauses & conditions in that last contract renewal negotiations? For that matter, where did they put that stack of agreements they were supposed to be reviewing?

If WE don't monitor and control the documents, strategies, and activities of those who work with the assets for which we're responsible, who will?