On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 05:57:51PM +0000, stephen mc murray wrote: > I'm a student in my final year of my computer networking honers degree. > I have decided to do my thesis on unattended installations. The initall > research stage was simple enough (hence how I came across this forum) > however the two software packages that will be used in the "live" test will > be unattended and notons ghost > However Im having difficulty coming up with a suitable methodology to > use in order to conclude what package is more favourable. > I supose some important factors are cost, time taken and ease of use, > but how much value would you put on each one
Ease of customisation. That's my big one. Cost is a nice differentiator, but Freedom is better (it's a happy coincidence that people who force you to pay money tend to lock you down, too, and vice versa). Time required for an install is less important to me, because it's unattended (although an install that took a week would be less useful). Ease of use is only interesting to me to a point, because I'm pretty technical and can work most things out given time. Flexibility and openness are my big features, and Unattended comes out as the *big* winner in both those categories. - Matt
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