Simply because 
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/scogeneral/thread/3eab8fa3-c30c-4c29-91a4-92d03e5c69f4/
 was one of the first notes I read while investigating this
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From: Steven Peck [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 1:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler

Why would it not be used for Task Scheduling?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh420338

Not saying it's the best, just wondering why you can't use it for that.  If you 
already have System Center suite then it's something you can try for 'free'.



On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Kurt Buff 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yep - Opalis. Shame that - there aren't many packages in that spot.

Winbatch might be your better bet, in that case. It's been a long time
since I played with those products, too.

Kurt

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Adam Meixler 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I had thought the same thing! (was Opalis?)
>
> Some googling seems to suggest that it's not meant for Task Scheduling any 
> more. It can be made to do it, but its strong suit is repeatable Jobs rather 
> than scheduled tasks now.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:30 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Enterprise task scheduler
>
> It's been a lot of years since I touched it (more than 10!) and it's since 
> been acquired by MSFT and rolled into the SC suite, but Orchestrator comes to 
> mind...
>
> Might be worth a look.
>
> Kurt
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Adam Meixler 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Happy New Year everyone!
>>
>>
>>
>> I was hoping to get The Lists opinion on a good, un-bloated enterprise
>> task scheduler. Right now we have about a thousand tasks scattered
>> across different servers using the windows scheduled task service and
>> it’s just not doing it for us.
>>
>>
>>
>> It’d be nice if jobs could be pushed down to workers as they were
>> available vs. being scheduled on specific instances, but we at least
>> want a central control of these jobs.
>>
>>
>>
>> We’re open to any ideas that don’t involve CA
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks all
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