Vendors Clamp Down On License Compliance

摘要

IT managers at a Gartner Inc. conference here last week said software vendors are increasingly threatening ― and then conducting ― audits to determine whether users are complying with their licensing agreements. According to IT professionals and Gartner analysts, the use of software audits has swelled in recent months as vendors look for ways to generate additional revenue from existing users to make up for reduced spending on new licenses. Vendors such as Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. have long done audits of some of their customers, but conference attendees said other software developers are pushing harder on audits.