The Austin-based company is coming out of the shadows in the channel, saying it has amassed a community of more than 65,000 MSPs (Managed Service Providers) worldwide, of which about half reside in North America.
Spiceworks provides a free systems management, inventory, and helpdesk software application, Spiceworks IT Desktop, designed for network administrators working in small- to medium-sized businesses.
Spiceworks IT Desktop is used to inventory, monitor, manage and report on software and hardware assets. It also includes an integrated help desk system. Spiceworks runs on Microsoft Windows and discovers Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X machines along with other IP-addressable devices such as routers, VOIP phones, printers, etc. Spiceworks is an advertisement-supported application and is written in Ruby on Rails.
Apparently, Spiceworks has shown the IT world a way of integrating commercial software with
open source ambitions.
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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.
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