nothing new (Score 2, Interesting)

Novell Zenworks has had this capability for sometime in production environments. It also integrates with their management tools so it is easy to use on an entire network. To say this technology is newly discovered is a far cry from the truth. They also use Linux on the back end of the client to move the data to the server.

It is nice though to have something like this in the open source world though. Competition is good.