What Is the Relationship Between ZENworks for Desktops and ZENworks for Servers 3?

The name ZENworks originally was released as the name of a desktop management system. Since then, ZENworks has turned into a product brand name for Novell, and the original ZENworks is referred to as ZENworks for Desktops.

ZENworks for Desktops is considered a separate product and continues to have its own independent releases, development cycles, and feature sets. But some overlap exists between the two products. The ZENworks for Desktops 3 version, for example, has shipped with the capability to interact with the Tiered Electronic Distribution portions of ZENworks for Servers 3, enabling you to transmit application objects and files throughout your network.

ZENworks for Servers 3 uses the same Sybase database engine that ZENworks for Desktops uses to store its inventory and other information. ZENworks for Servers 3 automatically creates tables in its own database files and uses the same Sybase engine that the ZENworks for Desktops installs. The two ZENworks products reuse several of the objects in the tree, and they both follow the same concepts of the policies. The only difference is that ZENworks for Desktops introduces workstation policies, whereas ZENworks for Servers 3 brings server-related policies into the system.