Saturday, January 27, 2007

Building widget-style dashboards

Yes...I have seen the latest version of the Mac OS X. I know it has widget-style dashboards.

I want to know if we can build similar internal dashboards for companies.
Would these require downloadable client software ? That would not be a feasible solution since a lot of new machines are added to the network at any point of time and this would involve adding these client software to the image.
Which leads me to the next question : Is it necessary for all machines owned by a company to have a standard image ? How is this enforceable in the scenario where 25 % of the desktops run on Linux, 60% run on Windows and the rest run on Mac, Abracadabra etc ??? Would you have to build non OS-specific client software ?

This is a much bigger problem than I thought...!!!

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