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A must-have patch management tool for sys admins
Leonard Bronsky
03.04.2002
Rating: -4.12- (out of 5)
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Gravity Storm Software released a free version of its flagship product,
Service Pack Manager 2000. This release came in response to free
Microsoft security hotfix discovery command-line tool, HFNETCHK. Unlike
HFNETCHK, the free version of SPM2000 is a LITE version with a full-blown
User Interface and a rich set of features. Although some features that appear
in a full version of the product are disabled in the free LITE version,
it is still the first free security patching tool with no equivalent on
the market.
The free LITE version was released as part of the global new
release of Service Pack Manager 2000 V6.3 that added support for
Windows XP and Microsoft ISA 2000 Server. I've been using SPM2000 for
over a year now and must admit that I probably saved my company
anything between $100,000 to $200,000 if I think about all the people and
my own time I had to spend to manage NT/2000 Service Packs and
security hotfixes. It's a bigtime saver, but more importantly, it makes
patching security holes in my 120 machines viable. It's a must-have tool for
every sys admin!
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