Other products
There are various other suites available that will provide a similar service to the ones we have looked at.
These include:
Novell ZENworks for Desktops 4:
ZENWorks is Novell´s software management package which has a number of excellent features, including its ability to create a snapshot image, which is created by looking at the differences in registry entries and files installed before and after an application is installed on a system. This allows just those changes to be sent to any computer and the software is “installed”.
IBM Tivoli:
IBM´s Tivoli suite is designed to manage software on a very large scale. It can deploy a software update, check systems for viruses and security breaches, and even keep tabs on your applications.
Tivoli has been around since 1989 and is a solid and dependable product for managing all your systems from the basic desktop PC, through all your Intel-based servers to the really big stuff like storage management and mini/mainframes.
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