Monday, August 01, 2005
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Due to other priorities and apparent curiosity in the viability of open source projects, Eric Wise has made the decision to open source his Easy Assets .NET product.  Easy Assets .NET is a web-based application created to allow organizations to track assets (computers, monitors, printers, projectors, or just about any equipment I suppose) including purchase history, warranties, service agreements, and help-desk issues.  Any organization (business, church or ministry) with more than a few computers could realize some big benefits from asset tracking.

If you find his product beneficial, I hope that you will reward Eric's efforts in the form or donations or contract work.  I look forward to hearing the results of his experiment. 

Downloads are available here.

Wednesday, August 03, 2005 5:33:00 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Do you mean serial numbers for software licenses? As far as I know EasyAssets doesn't do anything like this. You would need a software metering/audit tool, which typically installs an agent on every computer that reports back to a central server what software is installed. When I worked at DuPont, we fondly referred to software like this as GestapoWare ;)
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 5:02:00 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
David, do you know if EasyAssets does automatic checking of serial numbers? My wife's company needs something that automatically polls the network for serial numbers, which I imagine is technically difficult. It looks like EasyAssets is more of a data entry type application.
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