Acknowledgement

First and foremost, I'd like to thank the outrageous support from my parents and close friends. My girlfriend, Dea, for accepting my way of dealing with everything in life. Special thanks to Gabor Bernat, I'm grateful for those well-thought comments regarding the manuscript. My colleague, Ceclan Sandor, for keeping up with support over time. Alina D., Lehel M., and Szilard N. for their encouragements and believing in me.

A huge thank you to my technical reviewer—Jeff Prater, you cannot imagine the impact your input has had on this book. You have definitely gone beyond the call of duty while reviewing and researching. Robert Dunham, for kick-starting me in my writing endeavors many years ago. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be a published author now.

Moreover, I'd like to thank the professional and entirely author-centric team from Packt Publishing, especially Ashwin Shetty, Dilip Venkatesh, Duane Moraes, Hyacintha D'Souza, Neha Patwari, Priya Mukherji, Smita Solanki and everyone else. All of your hard work made this book possible. My sincere thanks for putting up with my hectic schedule.

Lastly, I consider this book as a tribute to the developers of OCS Inventory NG, GLPI, and the Open Source community. I also appreciate the readers of this book and truly hope that my work helps a great deal in succeeding to fulfill their IT inventory demands.

And finally, thanks James Payne for understanding my lack of activity from the Shed. Oh, and of course, everyone from the DevHardware Forums—You guys are fantastic!