Managing an enterprise full of PCs that weigh about six pounds each and fit inside a briefcase.
Mobile clients are inherently more complex to manage than network-attached desktops.
Mobile clients connect to the home LAN on an unpredictable schedule, and when they do dial in, their bandwidth is seriously constrained. A new crop of software aimed at managing mobile systems, from PCs to PalmPilots, has arrived to help rein in the road warrior. Manage 2.0, Callisto Software's Orbiter 3.0, and Mobile Automation 3.0 from Mobile Automation - three applications that provide software distribution and asset management capabilities to remote systems. It can support more than a single server, which makes it well-suited for an enterprise intranet. Callisto's Orbiter has several components that interoperate - an NT server process, a client agent and an administration console.