Comments on Adventures of a Technical MasterMind: Ipmonitor, spiceworks, and vendor maintenance

If you can make it or know someone who can, Spicew...

2009-11-15T06:47:08.355-05:00

If you can make it or know someone who can, Spiceworld London ( http://www.spiceworld2009.com/london/ ) will be a great event to learn more about Spiceworks and meet up with some people.

It will also be the first place to get 4.5 training.

It will hopefully also been streamed so you maybe able to watch it where ever you are in the world.

There will be memebers of the Spiceworks team as well as lots of members of the community.

It will be a great day followed by hopefully a great afterparty.

Yeah they all handled it, but it would be a good f...

2009-10-25T10:09:37.659-04:00

Yeah they all handled it, but it would be a good feature to have in the product. The helpdesk system we use JIRA does that well.

I hope they let you renew your maintenance. I thi...

2009-10-25T09:03:14.219-04:00

I hope they let you renew your maintenance.

I think having maintenance integrated into the products is a good idea.

I'll having to bring this up at our next meeting. :)

Normally a good reseller would handle such notific...

2009-10-23T08:25:06.337-04:00

Normally a good reseller would handle such notifications since they get a cut on the commissions. The problem I have is that none of mine have ever done a good job with that up until this point. Part of the problem is also that companies store the individuals name who made the purchase, and when they leave the company the data doesn't get delivered. I keep trying to get them to use my group email address, some vendors do this, while others do not. Pretty annoying to handle when I have this many vendors.

It would be awesome if there was a centralized ser...

2009-10-23T08:03:04.645-04:00

It would be awesome if there was a centralized service I could sign-up for that monitored all software and hardware licenses and maintenance stuff from vendor companies then just notified me. I too have had minor crises when something wasn't renewed. I hate having to keep track of zillions of vendors and licenses. Why hasn't some smart company started to handle this. They could probably make good income just picking up a share of that "free money" the hardware and software companies are leaving on the table.