Hi! > > > In large corporate/enterprise environments with hundreds or > > > thousands workstations and laptops a centralized management tool > > > is a must and any home-made scripting solution hacked by those > > > two geeks working in the basement is too fragile solution so > > > something proven and tested would be needed. > > > > All this stuff, whether corporate or Linux or even budding new OS's > > are written by Geeks. Where they work, and how much they get paid > > and by whom has very little impact on value. > > Some practical examples. > > Some of the largest networks and clusters in the world are managed by > custom, in-house developed solutions. > > - Having proper process > - Doing proper testing > - Having a third party for support/blame/testing/.. Thanks for the comments. Actually the second and third points were the most related to what I was referring with the "geeks in the basement" comment: unfortunately it's not only a technical problem to have an in-house system in use, it needs just few PHBs to bring up "a demand for a supported solution" (some of them tend to praise Microsoft SMS [1] for how mature product it is and also a supported one - no matter that Microsoft and support in the same sentence doesn't make much sense in my books). Also the idea of developing a tool in-house for something that is not part of core business might raise questions. With Satellite Server and perhaps in the future also with Blueprints one could get away by saying that these are clearly proven and supported tools and while they would still need local customization the PHBs could OK them because they heard the words "proven" and "support". 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_Management_Server Cheers! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
