why not OS X?

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 5:42 PM -0400 6/4/02, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

>Moreover, "Remote Desktop" is not entirely what I am talking about. Say,
>you have a network of workstations on a private IP subnet and you want
>to update software on all of them. With remote desktop, you will still
>need to somehow allow them to connect to Apple and download updates.
>PUNCH. That's a nice hole in your firewall. Or, let's imagine that you
>have 200 machines, and one wussy ISDN line out. Consider how long it
>would take for a 50-Mb update to download 200 times? Wouldn't you rather
>have an internal server where you could put a package for the clients to
>download and install it over your 100Base-T?

Apple Remote Desktop has software distribution functionality like 
that in addition to the VNC-equivalent stuff.
-- 
Tim Seufert