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Apple Remote Desktop 2 Released

Posted by pudge on from the neato dept.

chasingporsches writes "Today Apple released Apple Remote Desktop 2, a major upgrade of their network management software. New features include new software management support, and VNC support, which allows you to control and view any VNC-enabled Mac, Windows, or UNIX-based machine. Unlimited client price is $499, 10-client $299. It's not available as a free upgrade, but you can get a discounted price if you purchased the previous version today or later."

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  1. Re:Fucked by Apple by chasingporsches · · Score: 4, Interesting

    $500 is a small price to pay for a software product that works as well as it does. if you haven't used remote desktop, it might seem like a steep price to pay. but if i had a number of machines to manage, $500 would save a lot of money in IT costs by controlling all of them from one computer. Remote Desktop isn't JUST VNC. also, this isn't aimed for consumers, it's aimed for businesses and education.

  2. You gotta wonder by foidulus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    what else Mr. Jobs is planning to reveal at the WWDC. We already got a few updates(G5 speed bump, upgrade to the remote control desktop). Besides Tiger, what else is there? New displays, while interesting, aren't really that groundbreaking(though I could be wrong), a G5 iMac? Probably not all that interesting for developers.
    There really isn't a whole lot of chance that there will be a G5 powerbook, so could Steve be holding back on something really groundbreaking?
    Lets use this post for pointless speculation!

    1. Re:You gotta wonder by foidulus · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Well, a new XCode is rumored to be part of Tiger. At think secret they have a rumor that XCode 1.5 has been seeded. You can download version 1.2, I haven't yet(because I am happy with it's C support, and I use Eclipse for Java) from Apple for free, I'm not really sure of what the extra features are.
      I haven't messed around with the distributed build and fix and continue features of XCode(which seem to be the most interesting), but after I get my G5(currently only have an iBook :( ) I think I will try playing with those.
      But yeah, for the time being you are probably better off running Eclipse versus XCode for Java. While XCode "works" under Java(and does automatically set the look and feel to be Aqua), there aren't that many features.

  3. My point was... by Microsift · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What do you get upgrading from 95 to 98?
    What do you get upgrading from 98 to ME (I think you lost stuff here)

    Only the XP upgrade was truly compelling, but I know people who bought every one!

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    My other sig is extremely clever...