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ZENworks Next Generation

by | Jul 3, 2006 | Uncategorized, ZENworks

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Spyglass

Novell have talked about ZENworks futures at every BrainShare and customer event for as long as I remember. During 1999 and 2000 I remember being the Product Manager for ZENworks and talking about the up-coming ZENworks for Desktops 3 release – and how that would run on NT 4 server!

The next generation of ZENworks – you may have heard this by it’s internal development name of Brimstone – is much more than an incremental update.

This next release of our Configuration Management product is designed to deliver several key promises:

  1. unify and integrate the product components and architectures
  2. provide a single management console which is web based
  3. unify all backend services to use a single, database repository with a published schema.
  4. utilise a single pluggable agent on the managed client device
  5. allow seamless, yet powerful integration with corporate identity directories – Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory
  6. allow rapid deployment and installation across your enterprise

My next series of posts will drill down into this next generation of ZENworks – and will include screen shots and other information from the latest engineering milestones.

For the record – Novell does not pre-announce shipping dates for products. We are looking to release this product “during 2007″ – BrainShare 2007 will have a lot of information on this major innovation.

Written at: Tel Aviv, Israel

[Edit: Reposted with updates. Original post 28 June 2006]

An Inconvenient Truth – follow up

by | Jul 2, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Gonetoutah, Technology, Uncategorized, Utah


So finally we got to see "An Inconvenient Truth" - and it was stunning. A really well produced - but not slick and markety - and thought provoking film. Al Gore did a great job of presenting the arguments - and did so in a very humbling, personal way. A "must see" for everyone. Actually - I'll make that stronger - if you live in the developed world - and especially within the US - you must see this movie. Go with an open mind.

Ratings – part 2

by | Jun 29, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

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I blogged earlier about the ratings system.

Here is your chance to decide on the look and feel of the site.

Which style do you prefer:
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Currently the bars are enabled – I’ll turn on the stars tomorrow to show the difference.

Just leave your comments below.

Written at: Draper, UT

by | Jun 29, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized

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We added the ability to rate each and every post.

The idea is to let you give some feedback on the quality of the blog article – rather than ‘I agree’ or ‘I disagree’.

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Written at: Draper, UT

Under each post title you will see a ratings bar – with some information on the votes so far. The example above shows that Ken Muirs post on GroupWise security had three votes with an average rating of 3.33.

To vote move your mouse over the rating bar – select the score for the post – and click. Remember the weighting is from 1 through 5 with a higher number representing a better rating.

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Once you click the magic of Cool Blogs comes to life and your vote is registered. It’s all shiny new Ajax – so no need to refresh.

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We will be using these ratings to show the ‘best of Cool Blogs’ and the ‘Top Ranked Bloggers’ in the near future.

Let me know how you find these ratings.

Written at: Draper, UT