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ZENworks Next Generation, BrainShare 2007, and Stuff...

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25 November 2006 - 1:20pm
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I want to quickly cover off two things before I take off for the rest of the weekend and enjoy some life.

First... for those of you that are looking to go to BrainShare this year, and are interested in "what's going on with ZENworks", let me point out that you are going to see a number of new sessions this year, mainly covering the topic of the next generation of ZENworks... codename "Pulsar". Attend these sessions. We are going to turn things upside down this year, and promise you a treat. We are going to HEAVILY focus on demonstrating things, deployment, and best practices for design, and architecture. So keep in mind that when you see "Pulsar" or "Next Generation" in the title, sign up while you can.

Second... I have been asked by several people to do a couple of things regarding the next generation of ZENworks. First they would like to see us develop some white papers covering this revolutionary release of ZENworks, and secondly they would like me to cover off some topics like deployment and migration here on Cool Blogs. Given that it's Saturday right now, and life is calling, I will not go into it today... but I will start to post more starting next week (the week of November 27). Post here if you have comments, or things you would like me to cover off for your benefit.

Cheers from the Great White North, and a little city known as Toronto.

Mark (Hollywood)




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Ron van Herk's picture

Hi Mark, I don't think

Submitted by Ron van Herk (not verified) on 26 November 2006 - 3:24am.

Hi Mark,

I don't think we've explained what Pulsar is and how this relates to Brimstone, in previous posts we've always referred to Brimstone when we discussed the new generation ZENworks. Now that you used the name Pulsar and we've seen the names Pulsar and Corona being used on the BrainShare Sessions list where people can vote for sessions, maybe it's time to explain what these two are.
May I give you the honor to explain how these relate .....

Ron

Mark Schouls's picture

Sure Ron... were you paid to

Submitted by Mark Schouls (not verified) on 27 November 2006 - 7:42am.

Sure Ron... were you paid to ask this question? :)

Look at it this way... "Brimstone" is the architecture for the next generation of ZENworks. "Pulsar" is the first release of this architecture, and "Corona" is the second release. "Pulsar" will be the "Standard Edition" of ZENworks, and "Corona" will be a relase of both an updated "Standard Edition", and the introduction of an "Enterprise Edition". It all fits together nicely on the roadmap.

Cheers.
Mark

Chris B's picture

Mark, what the heck is the

Submitted by Chris B (not verified) on 28 November 2006 - 2:19am.

Mark, what the heck is the "Hollywood" thing all about? Private joke, perhaps?

Mark Schouls's picture

Yeah... sorry. Take a look

Submitted by Mark Schouls (not verified) on 28 November 2006 - 5:02am.

Yeah... sorry. Take a look back at some of the earlier posts in March of this year. I still get a kick out of it, although it's starting to wear thin on me.

eric's picture

Ha ha - not funny here either

Submitted by eric (not verified) on 28 November 2006 - 4:25pm.

Ha ha - not funny here either

Mark Schouls's picture

ha ha... yeah.

Submitted by Mark Schouls (not verified) on 29 November 2006 - 12:40pm.

ha ha... yeah.

Joseph Marton's picture

There's an article online at

Submitted by Joseph Marton (not verified) on 8 December 2006 - 6:47am.

There's an article online at Network World's site that says the next ZENworks will only support Unix, Linux, and Windows. Is this true? No more NetWare support? Here's the article:

http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/netware/20...

Martin Buckley's picture

NetWare will not be

Submitted by Martin Buckley (not verified) on 8 December 2006 - 11:28am.

NetWare will not be supported as an infrastructure platform for the next version of ZENworks.

We will focus on Linux and Windows. This fits with what is happening with OES - OES2 will have NetWare running as a virtualised service.

ZENworks 7 will continue to support NetWare.

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