> Yeah, I agree with this. A recent case for us was figuring out a way to
> manage our 6000 Mac clients. We used cfengine and puppet in the past,
> but they both required too many high level resources for the benefits.
> We are now using Kace and even though the upfront costs were a bit
> steep, we are able to get so much more done with lower level resources
> and everyone is so much happier. In our case it was a 3 to 1 difference
> in internal resources.
Not to turn this thread into Open Source vs commercial, but...
Sometimes the commercial product really is a better choice.
In your case, I am curious about a couple of possibilities:
1) puppet and cfengine really did require too much high level staff
time
2) your particular configuration/application of puppet and cfengine
required too much staff time, but a rework could have simplified
it
3) [a variation of #2] Switching to the commercial product forced
you to rethink and reorganize the configuration -- the second
implementation, regardless of which tool was used, learned from
the first and was better (and in this case, less staff-intensive)
Any thoughts on that from you particular experience?
--david
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