Announce: opsi 3.5 + co-funding projects

[d.oertel]

* New opsi-version 3.5 (2. quarter 2010)
* Reduced Price for the co-funding project opsiclientd (Vista/Win7)
* New co-funding projects


** New opsi-version 3.5 (2. quarter 2010) **
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We are happy to announce the new opsi version 3.5.
The most important new features are:

1. A complete redesigned server library
Based on this new library:
-- New MySQL-Backend with a relevant increased performance
especially for large installations
(more then 500 clients until some thousand)
--> This is a co-funding project (2 000€)
-- Faster LDAP-Backend
-- increased stability
-- graphical display of server statistics
-- Python 2.6 based distributions are now also supported
(Ubuntu > Intrepid, Suse > 11.0)

2. Enhanced management interface:
-- Hierarchical groups of clients
Display of this groups in treeview
Groups of products
--> This is a co-funding project (500€)
-- Redesigned GUI for a better usability
-- Client specific additional configuration
-- Administration of additional client data like IP-Number and Inventory-Number


3. Control of installation sequence by product priorities
4. Decreased network traffic installing packages in multiple depot environments
5. Enhanced opsi-winst
6. Redesigned data structure for software inventory with support for 64 Bit


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** Reduced Price for the co-funding project opsiclientd (Vista/Win7) **

Our co-funding project for the opsiclientd (Vista/Win7 support) have exceeded the 90 % border.
Therefore we reduce the co-funding fee from 2 000€ to now 900€.

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** New co-funding projects **

Working on opsi 3.5 we started two new co-funding projects:

- MySQL-Backend for configuration data
This new Backend brings a massively increased performance
especially for large installations
(more then 500 clients until some thousand)
The co-funding fee is 2 000€

- Hierarchical groups of clients
Display of this groups in the management interface
using a treeview
Groups of products and display of this groups
in the management interface
The co-funding fee is 500€

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regards

d.oertel

[vilemaxim]

I've read good thinks about OPSI and even see a little of it in actions. Looks really cool, so I waned to try it out for myself and seen the announcement for 3.5, but I don't see anywhere to download it. Can anyone help me.

Jeff

[jimmight]

I have not a clear view exactly on how to make it better, because i'am only rereading the schema now, but we can modelize what we have now in a lab and come back in december with some proposal how to make it better.

[d.oertel]

Hi,
@jimmight:

what you are talking about ?

cheers
d.oertel