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ENGL ZToolkit 5 beta

by | Aug 14, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I’m building demos – and I’m using a pre-release (very restricted) version of the ENGL ZToolkit version 5.

It not only supports Vista – but also ZENworks Configuration Management.

I’ll get round to doing some screencams later.

Blog backlog

by | Aug 14, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

Phew. Finally we shipped ZENworks Configuration Management.

An incredible team effort by the Novell engineering and QA teams – a complete rewrite and integration job from the ground up in just over 18 months. There have been some fantastic individual and team contributions – both early on and in the final few weeks.

It’s been the sole focus of my life for the past six-nine months – it feels like a massive weight has lifted from me.

The last few weeks have been pretty intense – I’ve spend time in the Novell Superlab overnight, testing the product; more time in the Superlab running more tests and competitive tests; endless hours logging bugs, getting fixes and verifying that everything is resolved.

I’ve logged way over 200 bugs against the product in the last nine months (that’s a lot for Product Management) and about twenty showstoppers.

I know the product is a lot better, more customer ready and more ready to be deployed because of this.

I’ve got a backlog of posts that I’m going to start posting.

In the Novell SuperLab

by | Jul 20, 2007 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

I’m in the Novell SuperLab for the night – don’t ask. I’ve got the run of the place – there are thousands of machines in here – and I’ve got 500 workstations to play with. It’s a geek playground.

I’m running some tests, collecting data and writing notes for a set of white papers about ZENworks Configuration Management.

Written at: Provo, UT