Wow – it’s been hectic – but the combined teams in Provo,UT and Lebanon, NH really cranked and turned this one around.
Novell today announced details of the availability of the new ZENworks Asset Management product.
Screenshots here:
Architecture:
Download is here:
http://download.novell.com
Placeholders for now – comments later:
Working Smart: Corporate Blogging Guidelines, Draft #2
Working Smart: Corporate Blogging Guidelines, Draft #2
The Red Couch – More Scoble and Israel on blogging
A working title for a self-help book on ZENworks 
There are some great resources around for ZENworks administrators – from the online documentation, the community based CoolSolutions to Ron Tanners incredible Administrators Guide.
What is really missing is a short guide that describes the business and technology change that can take place with a coherent systems management project; the steps that should be taken; the stakeholders in an organisation; the thought processes behind the technology – all the moving parts that the other books don’t cover.
I spent time in Toronto this week at LinuxWorld – and spent time with Mark Schouls – we both have consulting backgrounds – and both saw the need for such a book.
Who knows – it might yet get written …
–ezs
I had an interesting situation today where my NetApplet icon just disappeared. I hunted around the gconf panel settings – but no luck.
One quick mail to Guy and the answer came back:
Netapplet is a ‘systray’ application. I suppose you are missing the “Notification Area” applet in your of your panels for Netapplet to show up on your desktop.
If you have not already, simply add a new panel at the top of your desktop. Right-click on the panel “Add to panel > Utility > Notification Area”. Once there, you may need to restart netapplet to get it to show up there.
Working just great now – and shared so others may have a googleable fix.
I’m in Toronto for LinuxWorld – and I’m looking at more relevant articles on blogging in a semi-closed corporate world. Next thing I find a very apt summary of this at Claire’s Alternate Version of Reality. Seems like Sun has a pretty pragmatic and open policy on employee blogging.
So in the words of Claire Giordano – who worked on the OpenSolaris project:
This conversation made me wonder – if you work for a company that doesn’t yet encourage employee blogging, and you’re wondering about whether you should influence your company to start blogging, where do you go from there? How do you go from wondering about whether to encourage blogging to articulating the benefits to the business to assessing cultural compatibility to persuading key influencers – and finally, to working the logistics?
Next thing I noticed was that all of the seminal blogging and disruptive marketing sources are noted – the Cluetrain Manifesto; as well as Tim Brays more recent posts on blogging.
The post is worth a read – it is certainly informative about the approach that Sun takes to blogging and the benefits they get from it.
Even Robert Scoble gets a mention..
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