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This morning I went hunting for a the correct publisher for a FTP Command Line application for windows. According to the collected record the publisher was http://www.software-download.name/windows-command-line-ftp/ – so I started out by looking up the website. Of course, no publisher record was immediately available on the website, but then I took a closer look at a screenshot of the application, and there I found the missing information.

Windows FTP Command Line copyright holder

Software Download is a website promoting applications from programmers all over the world, the programmer is Donalod Tu.

Why make it so difficult to find the correct copyright holder for a program?

Facebook is down this morning, and when I was an IT Manager some years ago SYSTEMS DOWN meant that somebody’s ass got kicke (and this was usually my ass), so one of the first things I did as an IT Manager was to do a complete inventory of all systems, what are they, what is [...]

Sometimes establishing the correct publisher can be a very frustrating and time consuming experience. However, finding the publisher  is a very important part when you work with Software Asset Management. Do I have the latest version installed? Where can I find an update? The publisher,  does he have support program? Many questions can be answered and [...]

Over the last few weeks I have been analyzing hundreds if not thousands of websites presenting software and software publishers, and honestly – I am wondering how a lot of people and smaller companies are doing it. The create great small program, but it is more often than not almost impossible to find their website [...]

When you are responsible for Software Asset Management one of your tasks is to identify the software installed on your system. Regardless of the collection tool you use, you will find that a lot of records collected are incomplete and it may be quite a task to establish the correct information about the record. The [...]

If you are running managing projects, there is one book you should know by heart and that is the PMBOK or Project Management Book of Knowledge. The PMBOK describes in detail what project management is all about, in short it is all about managing processes. By completing a number of processes in a timely manner [...]