Ubuntu Business for Companies

[Scott J. Henson]

Fabio Marzocca wrote:

>I am wondering if anyone is working on a specific Ubuntu version for
>Companies. Main issues I have found are:
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Here at WVU in the LCSEE department we are working on and using such a 
system.  Its based on Hoary currently, but we are going to start porting 
it to Breezy in a bit here.

>- When you have a number of installed desktops greater than 10-15, it
>is a problem to let every user act on his PC with sudo permission. You
>will never have consciuosness of installed
>applications/revisions/versions in the Company's LAN;
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We currently have lab installs that are standardized and the users don't 
have sudo or install permissions.  If they need something installed they 
can request it and we ussually install it pretty quickly.

>- It is needed a sort of Central Configuration System (CCS), capable
>of install and/or configure each PC on the LAN (maybe not the one in
>Boss' office...), following the Company's IT policy;
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We do this based on custom packages and a few scripts that query a LDAP 
databse for selecting what packages to install.  It does a decent job, 
though we are learning from this version and we hope to fix some things 
when we port to Breezy. 

>- The CCS should also take care of statistics concerning installed
>software/versioning and utilization ratio. It could also host a
>central dictionary for OpenOffice applications, and so on.
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Nothing like this.  Don't really see the need for it.