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Impact of Unlicensed Software on Mid-Market Companies
Overview Companies must weigh the trade-off of purchasing and using genuine, fully licensed software versus using unlicensed software. This paper explores this trade-off and concludes that companies with unlicensed software do not have lower IT spend, but may incur far greater risk of system failure, data loss and employee discontent. This paper explores the differences between mid-market companies (organizations with greater than 24 PCs and less than 500 PCs) that are committed to using genuine, fully licensed software to those that allow unlicensed software to play a role in their firm. It explores the differences in IT system failure rates, IT spending, perceived risks of counterfeit software, and fundamental company success metrics.
| Publisher | Harrison Group | File Format | |
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| Date Published | July 2008 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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