Software Push

[Hanasaki JiJi]

On a slightly parallel note...

Take a peek at the below URL for on-demand deployment to clients.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jws/

Steven Elling wrote:
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 14:18, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> 
>>Ok, one point that someone brought up in support of Novell is that they
>>already own Novell-based software management tools that can automatically
>>update workstation applications.  Windows uses SMS to achieve this,
>>although in my company they more often use an embedded Version
>>Check/Update routine within an application that may require updates.
>>
>>What does a Linux Server environment offer that can push software updates
>>to (Windows NT/2000) machines?
> 
> 
> When I worked in Sprint's ITFS as a Desktop Support Prof.  we had 
> distribution servers --- running some form of UNIX --- we connected to via 
> telnet and scheduled software pushes to Windows systems individually or as 
> a group.  The software pushes could be individual programs or a group of 
> programs.  We could even pop in a DOS floppy and rebuild a system.
> 
> I can't remember the name of it but it worked really well.  It could of 
> worked better if Sprint's implementation wasn't so sh*tty.
> 
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