Open-AudIT

I haven't done the software licensing section yet, so some of you might prefer Open-AudIT stick around... but I'm thinking I'd like to kill it once and for all. I want to redo the website and am thinking of moving the Open-AudIT forums to a similar state as the WINventory forums. I would then delete the WINventory forums. OAv2 would then become "Open-AudIT" going forward.

Bear in mind you can create reports (and there are a few already) that show the installs of various pieces of software (MS Office for example). That's half the work done - you then just need to manually add up how many licenses you have... It's not a perfect replacement for the functionality in Open-AudIT, but (if you ask me) that functionality is flawed anyway. The stuff that's going into OAv2 will be much, much better - just like the rest of it

Thoughts?

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I vote for removing it. As it stands a new user hits the website and downloads an ancient OAv1 that's almost guaranteed not to work without updating from SVN. Then we spend time telling them to try OAv2 or getting them help with OAv1 which is pointless.

I agree with jpa. V2 is now fairly stable and easier to manage (no SVN to negotiate) and if you wait a day or two the update scripts get sorted out A more prominent "Getting Started" (yes, I know it's in the README) might help things along.
Of course jpa might have nothing to do all day!

John

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[quote="Mark"]I haven't done the software licensing section yet, so some of you might prefer Open-AudIT stick around... but I'm thinking I'd like to kill it once and for all. I want to redo the website and am thinking of moving the Open-AudIT forums to a similar state as the WINventory forums. I would then delete the WINventory forums. OAv2 would then become "Open-AudIT" going forward.

I agree with jonbendtsen. I think is too early, although we are all excited about OAv2, it's still labeled a beta product. It doesn't make sense to retire one product functional (albeit old) product without having one that replaces it. In the marketing-product-management sense, you'll end up with a gap. (flame the MBA student here...)

Personally, I'm running both OA and OAv2(B6), cuz we still find some features from OA crucial to our operations, here's a quick list:

Embed Alert reports to Homepage (discovered items, not Audited items, partition alerts, SMART alerts). Also push alerts (RSS feeds or email) need to be there.
Search by fields within results (huge time saver)
Links to Warranty, Product Details, Google images (just convenience)
Disk usage graph (important for our labs)
Software register
Built-in Statistics and Queries page from get-go (OAv2 still requires end-user manual input which I have to redo with B6 )

I'm sure these features will inevitable be incorporated into OAv2, but in the mean time, I think retiring OA forums might be the wrong move.

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[quote="el_geto"]Embed Alert reports to Homepage (discovered items, not Audited items, partition alerts, SMART alerts).

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[quote="Mark"][quote="el_geto"]Software register

[quote="jonbendtsen"]can we help you with that somehow?

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[quote="Mark"][quote="el_geto"]Search by fields within results (huge time saver)

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I would say that you need an official release before you get rid of OAv1. That being said, you are close enough that you could just go on a bug hunt of finish up the features that you are supper close on and call that OAv2.0.0. Then have bug fixes be OAv2.0.1 and so on, and feature releases be 2.1.0 and so on. And that should keep all the people who don't like being on "Beta" software happy and still let you continue doing what you are doing.

But considering you make a great product and give it away. You can really just do whatever you want and I will be happy.

-Shmee

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