Another cross posting on Microsofts own internal discussions on software distribution to my team blog
Hmm.. This seems like a missing feature. I really only want to write this once and post to two blogs. That and trackback would be great.
[edit] – I originally had multiple blogs – I moved from Blogspot to self-hosted WordPress; now consolidated to a single blog.
It has been claimed by some that:
Microsoft Active Directory along with Group Policy Object support for software distribution is everything a customer needs to manage workstations.
Here we will discuss that further.
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I posted a lot of the previously internal ZENworks Linux Management/Red Carpet Enterprise configuration documentation. I dated it for December 2004 – which was when I posted it internally at Novell. Some day I must go back and clean up the formatting – it’s a raw cut and paste from the ZENworks internal wiki.
I was hunting around for some information on Mono dependancies when I found this article by Kevin Shockey:
Installing Mono on SuSE Linux with Red Carpet
Interesting – but one subtle flaw. The ZLM client components – also known as Red Carpet – are available online and they are open source – source hosted at cvs.gnome.org.
I mailed Kevin:
Kevin
I’ve just read your article from the end of last year – http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6123 – and I thought it was particularly interesting.
One thing to note – did you know that the ZENworks Linux Management client components – also known as Red Carpet – are 100% open source and available without downloading ZENworks Linux Management?
We have the RPMs for many platforms at ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/redcarpet2 – certainly fast and easy.
Also we have the public Red Carpet server http://red-carpet.ximian.com which provides community updates – including those for Mono.
Finally we have another open source project – Open Carpet – which lets developers host their updates to be consumed by the Red Carpet/ZLM client components – http://opencarpet.org
Let me know if I can be of any further help – and please feel free to reference this data in the future.
Regards,
/ezs
Let’s see if this gets a response. I’m keen to evangelise the benefits of OpenCarpet for developers and hacker teams.
Well – as usual it’s the week before Novell BrainShare and it’s hectic.
As I write I am in the Novell offices in our Product Management War Room building servers, clients and demos for the two ZENworks keynotes.
I’m also presenting three breakout sessions:
IO115 ZENworks Overview and Futures
TUT215 Managing Novell Linux Desktop with ZENworks Linux Management
TUT316 Advanced ZENworks Linux Management deployment and best practices
Information on these sessions is on the BrainShare breakout session site
No sooner have I posted on ZENworks 7 Linux Management – when a slew of press comes out:
Novell Linux Strategy In Full Bloom
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159401396
Novell CEBIT announcements are loud and clear
http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/03/11/0231214.shtml?tid=2&tid=3
Novell debuts ZENworks for Linux
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/HNzenworks7_1.html?source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/03/11/HNzenworks7_1.html
Novell Ramps Up its Linux Push
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775498,00.asp
Novell Upgrades Zenworks Linux Management Software
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775525,00.asp
This also got on Slashdot:
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/13/1233251&tid=223
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Tim Bray wrote an excellent article on blogging:
Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career
You have to get noticed to get promoted.
You have to get noticed to get hired.
It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top page” or “Oh, just google my name.”
No matter how great you are, your career depends on communicating. The way to get better at anything, including communication, is by practicing. Blogging is good practice.
Bloggers are better-informed than non-bloggers. Knowing more is a career advantage.
Knowing more also means you’re more likely to hear about interesting jobs coming open.
Networking is good for your career. Blogging is a good way to meet people.
If you’re an engineer, blogging puts you in intimate contact with a worse-is-better 80/20 success story. Understanding this mode of technology adoption can only help you.
If you’re in marketing, you’ll need to understand how its rules are changing as a result of the current whirlwind, which nobody does, but bloggers are at least somewhat less baffled.
It’s a lot harder to fire someone who has a public voice, because it will be noticed.
As a people manager I’m not too happy with #2 and #6 – but every point is spot on. As Product Managers we are inherently Marketers too.
Just a placeholder for now. I’ll add more links as I untangle them from my memory.
I’ve been looking in detail at how technology companies use blogs – generally they fall into three clear categories:
Tim Bray from Sun has a great discussion on how Sun built a policy on blogging and sharing information semi-informally with the public. Novell’s own Nat Friedman also blogs prolifically.
Microsoft have been pushing their employees to blog for a couple of years. The full list is here. Good ones to read are from either marketing or program management
Reverend Ted should deserve a mention. If only for the flame-wars he seems to create.
I’ve been working with the Novell Ximian engineering team in Cambridge, MA for about 18 months now – working to evolve Red Carpet Enterprise through to ZENworks Linux Management.
The ‘next’ version of ZENworks Linux Management has been planned and under development for about a year – it’s codename was “Project Birdman“.. the name was chosen by the Ximian team 🙂
Novell have just made an announcement at CeBIT that we will be releasing this product as ZENworks 7 Linux Management – and that this will be available in mid 2005.
My colleagues in Product Marketing have made a sweet ‘Sneak Peek’ website with information.
After BrainShare I’ll post more on this.
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