[Samba] OT - Software deployment

[Misty Stanley-Jones]

Hi all,

I have been fishing through the archives and have not found a lot of posts 
about this that were not 'golden oldies.'  Do you guys use anything other 
than brute force to deploy software and updates to your client PCs?  I would 
be interested to know what you are using, whether you use it for initial OS 
install, software deployment/upgrades, or other things, and roughly how much 
it costs.  Also how many PCs you maintain.  My preferences of course run to 
the free and Opensource options, but I am not sure how far they can take me.

Thanks,
Misty