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Montana must pay almost $1MM for unlicensed software

April 8, 2008 /

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The state of Montana has agreed to pay a Seattle company $921,000 to buy licenses for the unlicensed use of its software on more than 5,000 personal computers in various departments.

In January, Attachmate demanded that the state pay about $1.5 million after an independent audit found that unlicensed software was being used on computers in 12 departments, the governor’s office and the judicial branch.

The settlement provided that the state will pay Attachmate $921,453 to cover the unlicensed software, plus an additional $218,200 for upgrade maintenance of the software through February 2009.

Since December 2005, Dick Clark http://itsd.mt.gov/ has been the state’s chief information officer in the Department of Administration, whose Information Services Technology Division oversees the state’s mainframe computer and computer systems.

By CHARLES S. JOHNSON
Gazette State Bureau

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/04/08/news/state/45-software.txt

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