Resource Allocation Software?

[Warren.MENTORG.COM">tom_limoncelli]

We are looking for recommendations for software that will let us manage
equipment that we loan out to employees, etc.

For example, we may have 5 modems purchased as loaners to staff that
will be going on the road.  The software should let someone reserve a
modem for the days that they are going to be on the road.

There needs to be a back end (it could be email) that would let our
sysadmin staff know when to deliver what equipment, and when to expect
to have equipment returned.

It would be nice if there was some way to query the database (For
example, if a salesperson needs 3 machines for a demo they'd need to
query, "Are 3 SPARC machines available on Monday?")

Handling "waiting lists" for certain items would be nice too.

We are seriously considering using a spreadsheet and allocating
a person to be the arbitrator/scheduler/etc, but it would be
much better if we could find canned (or free) software that
would do this kind of things for us.

Any recommendations?

Tom

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