~terry
Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (06:17)
seed
Windows. Hows does it stack up vis a vis other operating systems.
There are still other operating systems like OS/2 and UNIX, ya know.
~terry
Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (06:17)
#1
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/user_surveys/survey-10-1996/graphs/general/Primary_Computing_Platform.html
"For the third straight survey, over half of the respondents (65.91%)
use some flavor of Windows (3.1, 95, or NT) as their primary
computing platform. (Most notably, the percentage of those using Win95
has increased from 28.5% in the Fifth to 42.9% in the Sixth.) This
percentage is up strongly from the Fifth Survey (58.6%) as well as the
Third Survey (61.5%). The remaining users are mainly Apple users
(25.85%). The strong presence of Apple users is most likely a result of
heavy use of the Internet within educational setting, an area where
Apple has traditionally strong marketshare. The other operating systems
of the world (UNIX, VMS, etc.) are used by less than 5% of the
respondents each. In GVU's First WWW User Survey, conducted January of
1994, over 90% of the users reported UNIX as their primary computing
platform!"
~terry
Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (21:59)
#2
SMS Customization
Microsoft SQL Server - SMS uses Microsoft's SQL
SErver to store inventory, events and configuration
details. SMS has a utility called SMSVIEW that
creats "friendly" versions of SMS tables with these
tools. SMS SErver 1.1 also provides a ocopy of
Crystal Reports software to help create reports from
your SMS data.
DMTF MIF compatibility - The Desktop Magement Task
Force (DMTF) was orginated to develop a standard for
the management of hardware and software on the
desktop. The Desktop Management Interface (DMI) is a
DMTF specification.
SMS Server is compatible with version 4.5 of the DMI
spec. The SMS MIF parser accepts any valid MIF that
complies with v. 4.5 (although SMS does not use some
of the fields defined and modifies some field datatypes).
SMS also allows the client computer user to complete
a form with the MIF entry program and passes this
data back to the central database.
SMS SDK (software development kit) - The separately
purchased SDK enbales programmers to write cutsom
code to manage SMS by calling the SMS functions that
are provided through the SMS DLLs.
SNMP Support - SMS communicates twith the Windows NT
Simple Network Management Protocol service to allow
third party SNMP apps to manage SMS, such as IBMs
Netview.
~terry
Sat, Jan 10, 1998 (22:00)
#3
Ooops, wrong topic for the above post.
See topic 14.