[Casper] Casper v the others

[Jeff Johnson]

We used FileWave for 2-3 years in my previous school district. We were
managing more than 500 G3s, G4s, G5s and Intel Macs in 5 buildings. FW was
OK for its management features but we did have some issues with getting it
to work the way we wanted it to work. I don't think we ever did have a
truly accurate inventory.

Last summer I switched to a smaller district (~350 Macs) and am the lone
person in the IT department. I started using Casper out of necessity for
having robust, easy-to-use management and information gathering tools. So
far, it's been great and I feel like I am only using a fraction of
Casper's features well. The user group and JAMF support have been very
helpful.

With the Casper Suite including Casper, CasperAdmin, Composer, Recon and
the JSS, this is a far superior product to FW IMO.

I have not used any of the other Mac management products mentioned.

Jeff
Glendale, WI


Sean.Calderbank at bauer.co.uk on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 5:47 AM -0600
wrote:
>
>Hello Casper Community, 
>
>I have been asked to put a report together on the Pros and Cons of Casper
>v Filewave, LANrev, RADmind and LANDesk. Has anyone done such a thing?
>Rather than spend months doing this when we will almost certainly go with
>Casper, I was wondering if I could get some ideas from people who has
>already done this exercise in the Casper community. Are there any
>resources on the Web that I can access on this? Are there any tick box
>comparisons of what each product does against the others? 
>
>Any help with this would save me a massive amount of legwork and I would
>be truly grateful! 
>
>Thanks 
>
>Sean