Seems every day we hear about mass layoffs and downsizing as part of the New Corporate Darwinian Theory, where only the lean are meant to survive (and thrive?). Sadly, this has resulted in job losses which may never be recuperated. But if I put on my IT hat, I have to ask: Where Did The License Go? So many corporate machines running so much leased, borrowed, downloaded and distributed software they must be sitting around waiting for someone to say "RUN" or "GO TO."
I have to think that if an organization could harvest, re-use, re-negotiate or rid itself of excess software licenses, it could save at least one job.
Of course, that software license has in many cases, avoided the entrapments of its human brethren - that of the ID Badge, the Cube Number, the Parking Space and the Org Chart. And this has somehow left it idle and unproductive somewhere, soaking up corporate cash and taking up space.