Award-Winning Windows Logon Scripting Editor to Become Open Source.Unsupported Version of Script Start to Be Available for Free SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden & ATLANTA -- Entrigue Systems, today announced plans to release its popular Windows logon See login. 1. (jargon) logon - login. 2. (networking) logon - In ACF/VTAM, an unformatted session-initiation request for a session between two logical units. scripting solution, Script Start, to the open source community next month. Entrigue is making the move to bolster This article is about the pillow called a bolster. For other meanings of the word "bolster", see bolster (disambiguation). A bolster (etymology: Middle English, derived from Old English, and before that the Germanic word bulgstraz the development and customization of Script Start for its users and to be able to turn its attention more fully to complimentary products under development. "The open source community and our users have repeatedly requested that we make Script Start open source so that the solution can more fully and rapidly adapt to specific corporate and system integrator See systems integrator. implementations," said Jon McDonald, President of Entrigue Systems. "Releasing Script Start to open source will allow our development teams to concentrate more fully on the complimentary solutions under development while continuing to grow our Script Start user base." As part of the plan, Entrigue plans to seek official Open Source Initiative (OSI (1) (Open System Interconnection) An ISO standard for worldwide communications that defines a framework for implementing protocols in seven layers. Control is passed from one layer to the next, starting at the application layer in one station, proceeding to the ) Approval for Script Start. Entrigue also plans to launch an online forum for the community which will help facilitate the sharing of updated Script Start code, tips, and resources. The company is still considering whether it will license Script Start under the GPLv2 or GPLv3 open source license and the specifics of where it will make the source code available. Entrigue plans to continue to offer a fully supported commercial version of Script Start to customers that demand the best support and customer service for the product available anywhere. The commercial version of Script Start is affordably priced at $990 per domain controller with the ability to manage an unlimited number of client PCs. There are no client licenses to manage and no software to install on individual desktops. Script Start only needs to be installed on the networked domain controller and then can be administered with an easy-to-use graphical interface See GUI. via the web. Script Start fully supports both Windows and Linux servers. About Script Start from Entrigue Systems Through its extensive set of configuration modules, Script Start accommodates virtually all routine client configuration tasks. Built with rule-based logic, Script Start is configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: through the central ScriptConsole Web interface. Script Start also integrates perfectly with your existing KiXtart and manually written scripts. Map drives, install printers, configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. Outlook profiles, modify environment variables, adjust Internet proxy settings, configure RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) The presentation services protocol that governs input/output between a Windows terminal client and Windows Terminal Server. It is based on the T.share protocol. See Windows Terminal Server. (protocol) RDP - 1. connections, and further customize your client machines during user logon. Gain productivity working on more important things, confident that Script Start is configuring your client machines to your specifications at every logon. Experience for yourself what everyone is talking about. Download your free 30-day evaluation of Script Start at www.scriptstart.com. |
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