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Desktop management suites compare-o-matic

Network World Fusion, 04/09/01

The compare-o-matic lets you compare two or more desktop mgmt. products based on criteria you set. Select two or more products and whichever criteria you are most interested in, and the system will create a comparison table. Note: While you could select every app and every criterion, that would result in a table roughly the size of Rhode Island. Also, Internet Explorer 3.x and Lynx do not display the results tables properly.

Altiris eXpress
Cognet myITware 4.0
Cognet 3.5
Intel LANDesk Management Suite
Marimba's Castanet
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0
 		Novell's ZENworks
Open Software Assoc. NetDeploy Global
Tally Systems TS.Ready 4.0
Vector Networks LANutil32 Elite v5.020

Criteria to compare them by
Server operating system supported
Minimum processor speed
Minimum memory requirement
Minimum hard disk space
Client operating systems supported
Multicast Distribution supported
Scheduled distribution
End user acceptance options for distributed files
Software metering supported
Type of software metering supported
Reporting Capabilities
Software inventory database included with product
Hardware inventory database included
 Does inventory program run on demand or is it scheduled?
Types of inventory reports offered
Support for remote control
Support for remote control after PC is turned off?
Support for monitoring alerts
Type of failure alerts offered
Server alerts offered
Type of server monitoring reports available
Support for policy management
Support for client lock-down
Web-based management support
Price


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