since September 2008 there is support for Vista / 2008 clients available with opsi.
According to the big changes made by Microsoft it was a lot of work for us to do:
- the OS-Installation had to be modified.
- the preloginloader and opsi-loginblocker had to be rewritten completely.
All our software is open source.
New major features and enhancements (as the Vista support is) become open source once the development is financed.
Most of the opsi enhancements are funded by customers and then become available to the open source community.
30 000 Euros for financing the Vista support is too much for a single customer, but funded by 15 customers
it may be a valuable and convenient investment of 2 000 Euros each.
So we decided to sell the development cost in chunks of min. 2 000 Euros until the funding is complete. Up to this point, the opsi Vista support
is available only to the 'cooperative funders'.
Once the development is funded completely, this software will be released as open source.
At the moment (February 09) we've got 16 000 Euros, which is more than half of the required funding sum.
We hope that we could interest you in joining this project.
If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask us here at the free support forum or at info@uib.de
regards
detlef oertel