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SAMOSA Act reintroduced

Sheshagiri Anegondi
Sheshagiri AnegondiManaging Partner, Rythium · Oracle, 1998 to 2015, Vice President Sales
28 March 2025
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SAMOSA Act reintroduced.

Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act

  • This act would make agencies conduct comprehensive software inventories and undergo independent assessments of management practices and contracts.
  • Force agencies to adopt agreements in order to improve costs and negotiating power against vendors
  • Each agency must use the information developed pursuant to the assessment to develop a plan for the agency to (1) consolidate software licenses of the agency; and (2) adopt enterprise license agreements across the agency by type or category of software in order to improve the performance of, and reduce unnecessary costs across, the agency.

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Agency software purchasing bill reintroduced by House Oversight members

About the author

Sheshagiri Anegondi

Managing Partner of Rythium Technologies. Seventeen years at Oracle, from 1998 to 2015, in leadership roles including Vice President Sales, after Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Author of “Licensing Oracle: The Reference Manual for Managing Oracle License Compliance & Procuring Oracle Software, Hardware, Cloud & Services” (Notion Press, 2021) (ISBN 10: 1639046887).

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