Re:Ask HN: Big software teams, how do you manage your comput...
by contingencies on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @10:35PM
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Nobody called the OP an idiot.
The consensus is that physical developer hardware is best managed by developers.
The 'problem' of managing 'large numbers' of 'commercial software licenses' is not a problem with automation; unfortunately it goes against the grain of developers managing their own hardware.
It seems the real problem in the OP's organization is management unwilling to delegate and constantly searching for centralized solutions to trivial 'problems'.
The consensus is that physical developer hardware is best managed by developers.
The 'problem' of managing 'large numbers' of 'commercial software licenses' is not a problem with automation; unfortunately it goes against the grain of developers managing their own hardware.
It seems the real problem in the OP's organization is management unwilling to delegate and constantly searching for centralized solutions to trivial 'problems'.