Using Bridge within a small team

Hi
I have been looking for some basic digital asset management software that a small team can use to monitor and manage images within the organisation. Looking at functionality that shows up Who is using it, where , for how long, owner etc. Bridge seems to be able to do this, but the other members of the team do not have Bridge (Adobe) only i do, is there still a way they can add images and use the tools that Bridge offers without having to purchase the product as well?

Thanks again Curt we are talking about maybe max - 2000 images
Like Curt stated Bridge is not developed for use over a network. But to be honest, if you have only 2 k of files to manage and no money to pay for a network DAM you better think of being the master yourself and let your team send you per mail what they have done or used. It can't be that much work due to the small amount of files and almost every free viewer can read metadata so the team can see the files on their own system?
You can also make a study of the case the image archivist has put in his blog to tell about managing for use over a network but again, such small amount of files needs a calculation of time needed to be the master yourself or learning the skills for network usage of Bridge

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