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Spiceworks Toolbar integrates Firefox with Spiceworks, the free IT management software used by 400,000 IT Pros. The Spiceworks Toolbar alerts you to recent network and helpdesk activity, search, and convenient access to the Spiceworks Community of IT Pros.
More info: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/22096
Download: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8546
SpiceWorks Network Management Tool
From October 2007:
Anyone who has had to administer a network of users, hardware, and software knows the headache it can become. If your infrastructure, and the administration of that infrastructure, isn’t set up well, you can be in for a nightmare. Well, I came across SpiceWorks network management tool probably six months ago and have just now gotten around to installing it. And I’ve been pleasantly surprised by it on numerous fronts.
http://gopaultech.com/blog/2007/10/spiceworks-network-management-tool/
Spiceworks relies on ads to offer IT management software
From August 2007
Advertising-supported Web sites serving consumers like you and me may be all the rage.
But rarely have other Web sites, those serving companies, tried to rely on ads — because there’s not enough people to look at the ads.
But Spiceworks, an Austin, Texas company, has raised $8 million more in venture capital to deliver on its model of serving ads to on its site that offers software to manage the information technology assets of medium sized companies.
http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/28/spiceworks-relies-on-ads-to-offer-it-management-software/
Spiceworks – network management software for free
Another post from August 2007
I’ve recently been tinkering with a piece of network management software called Spiceworks. It’s a comprehensive tool with a web interface that helps IT staff manage networks for SMBs with up to 250 devices. It includes monitoring devices, hardware/software inventory listing, alerts, reporting and a help-desk feature to track end-user issues. To top it all off Spiceworks is free.
http://www.bugeyed.me.uk/2007/08/spiceworks-network-management-software.html
I found some old posts about Spiceworks to share:
This one is from August 2007:
What the real story is that Spiceworks offers an IT Desktop suite that is completely free and ad supported. Basically, as people use the software they are served up ads via a sidebar using AdSense.
My take….so long as the software does what it says it will do and provides value to an organization, then why the hell not? I wish Spiceworks all the best. Must be fun to work in their marketing department…cause the main goal is to seed and infiltrate the market with free software.
http://thescrappysoftwaremarketer.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/spiceworksthe-free-it-desktop/
Ages ago, like the 4 march 2007 FUCC reviewed Spiceworks quickly and effectively.
Spiceworks IT Desktop – Designed, tested and used by 30,000 IT pros in 170 countries, Spiceworks lets you easily: Inventory, monitor and report on the hardware and software on your network. Track issues and problems, manage your work and run a help desk. Solve problems with the help of IT pros around the world.
http://fucc.wordpress.com/2007/03/04/spiceworks-2/
Today I finally got around to installing spiceworks. The spiceworks.com web site claims the software is an IT manager’s dream – asset management and help desk, all from a simple Windows PC.
The installation took all of five minutes to complete. I think the most difficult part of the install was figuring out if my machine was already running a web server, or if spiceworks could use the default port 80.
http://thebackroomtech.com/2007/05/18/spiceworks-a-free-it-management-system/
You want network management software that works for you, not software that makes you work. You wish you could have it… without spending a fortune. Your wish is granted.
http://ttcshelbyville.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/spiceworks-free-network-management/
And couple more this afternoon 
As Spiceworks are getting near the end of the beta process the beta builds are coming out fast. 4.0 Beta Build IV wasn’t out that long ago and now 4.0 Beta Build V has been released.
This build brings big improvements to the network map yay
BrightHub.com on 13th May 09 reviewed Spiceworks and gave it a bottom line rating of: 
Spiceworks IT Desktop is a free, ad sponsored network and system monitoring, inventory, and helpdesk solution. With a large user community and flexible layout and options, IT Desktop meets all the basic requirements for a management platform. Best of all, there’s no cost to try it or use it! Read more
This review is another brilliantly positive review and will help Spread-Spiceworks with even more people.
The writer Lee Clemmer leaves the last comment as:
Highly recommended!
Rock on Spiceworks another happy user
zxzconsulting wrote a nice and short review of what they think about Spiceworks.
I’ve been experimenting with Spiceworks recently, as an addition or potential replacement for HP Systems Insight Manager. For a free product it’s awesome. It scans the network for devices and you can allocate them to Workstations, Servers, Printes etc. The great thing that sits alongside the product is the community. There are over 400,000 IT professionals worldwide using Spiceworks, and their experiences with harware, software, and vendors is there for the taking.
SWNews have found out some more news about a Spiceworks API…
Jay Hallberg VP of marketing and co-founder of Spiceworks has been reported to say: “We work with them to create self-contained applications they can plug into the Spiceworks interface to perform functions for users,”
Currently working with Microsoft, TrendMicro and CDW, Spiceworks 4.0 is said to include new app’s or plugins for things like a widget for Microsoft that lets IT managers manage their software licenses, LiveOffice archive management and CDW purchase management.
But Spiceworks may charge for these: “Hallberg says that Spiceworks is testing the program with four initial sponsors to glean best practices. Pricing varies and generally is part of larger marketing budgets, he says.”
More news as we get it
Following on from the old blog posts from 2007 we have listed we have also found some slightly newer ones to share:
redferret.net
Spiceworks is a freeware network management software package which is designed for geek professionals rather than Posh, Baby, Scary and Ginger. It’s free because the program beams ads at geeks, and judging by the user base of 400,000 it’s pretty successful.
austinstartup.com
On the opening day of the inaugural SpiceWorld 2008 user conference, Spiceworks announced that the user base for the industry’s first free crowdsourced IT management application for small and medium businesses has doubled to more than 500,000 in just nine months – making the Spiceworks IT Desktop the world’s fastest growing IT management application. In addition, Spiceworks announced it has doubled the number of advertisers running campaigns to its growing community of IT professionals.
http://www.austinstartup.com/2008/10/spiceworks-hits-500000-user-milestone-and-doubles-advertisers/
istockanalyst.com
Spiceworks(TM), Inc. today announced that the Spiceworks IT Desktop, the industry’s first free crowdsourced IT management application for small and medium businesses, is now able to support organizations with 500 devices – double the previous recommended limit. With new capabilities, such as improved performance, granular network scans, and integration with other network management tools such as Nagios, larger organizations can now use the Spiceworks IT Desktop to manage more of their day-to-day network and system management needs.
https://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/2965140
stapler
Spiceworks is a free network monitoring utility that I have started using one of my client’s networks. Spiceworks makes the software free by selling adds withing the application. The adds aren’t intrusive and I may find them useful at some point as they seam to be good companies and very relevant. There is a paid version if you don’t wish to see the adds.
