[Samba] Re: distribute/deploy software to clients

Florian Effenberger floeff at arcor.de
Sun Nov 7 18:47:09 GMT 2004


Hi Michael,

> Novadigm (now HP) Radia is maybe the "best" vendor tool. They won't 
> answer the phone unless you have at least 1000 nodes. (Which is stupid 
> in my opinion) Good support of distributing MSI's over HTTP.
> 
> These tools are pretty good for low end:
> 
> http://www.newboundary.com/
> 
> I have PrismPack wrapped into my Opus 3 technology to managed Win2K 
> clients. Disk imaging is my own. Automation of putting the correct Prism 
> packages on the machine is mine as well. As for pre/post scan this tool 
> is about the best out there for now.
> 
> And I can't comment on what LDS will be offering at this time, what Opus 
> 4 will / will not turn out to be.

Thanks, but these are all commercial solutions, whereas I need something 
free. ;-)

Florian


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