NewsForge: Streamline Software Inventory Management with OCSNG

“I manage about 200 computers running various flavors of Linux
and Microsoft Windows in my company. We built a home-grown
PHP-based inventory application to store our hardware and software
inventory information. The software relied on our updating
information manually, whenever there was any change, so as you
might expect, the data was always outdated. We replaced our old
system with Open Computer and Software Inventory Next Generation,
released under the GNU GPL. OCSNG suited our needs immensely. We
could see the benefits almost immediately, as it automated the
collection and updating of the data, which is the most crucial part
of inventory management…”

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