I'm listening, but not quite convinced. Cost is more than just software/licensing cost. It's man-hours to make it work, it's downtime for users. Remember that the goal is not to manage software installations, only to report. If reporting + management can be done for the same *total cost* including manpower, only then do we have a reason to investigate SCE.
The competing solution that hits the goal on the nose goes for $30/seat and probably needs less than 8 man-hours to install, learn, test, and put into production. So if "hard to beat on price" is even in the $30/seat ballpark, how many man-hours to convert 500 clients to SCE management, if only for the software that isn't updated by WSUS. Clients are spread among 4 sites, 2 of which have no dedicated I.T. staff. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 10:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What do you use for 3rd party software updates Depending on the size of the environment you are dealing with, SCE is hard to beat on price. Plus it gives you the ability to uninstall packages installed via msi on top of the reports showing success/failure info for all installed software, whether from msi or exe. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]> Subject: RE: What do you use for 3rd party software updates Seriously. I'd look at ConfigMgr 2007 anyway -- or even SCE. Probably the lowest priced solutions out there. -----Original Message----- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: What do you use for 3rd party software updates > Secunia's Network Software Inspector looks like a reasonable paid > alternative for auditing a network... Really? I talked with Secunia as well and the pricing I got was 4 times more than the full blown Shavlik Patch product - and NSI doesn't have deployment capabilities. - Andy O. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
