Why does a commercial vendor keep giving tools away? Ben Ward, Field CTO UK & Ireland at Recast Software, on Right Click Tools Community, OSDCloud and why application management is still the hard part.
In this episode
- Why Recast has sponsored the summit and keeps coming back
- Free community tools like Right Click Tools Community Edition and OSDCloud, and what Recast gets back from them
- The problem customers call about most: application management that never shows up as a budget line
- The Recast portfolio, from Right Click Tools to Application Workspace and OSDCloud
- What's coming in OSDCloud, and the question of community licensing
- Why Windows is the easy part and applications are snowflakes
Chapters
00:00 Welcome: Ben Ward
01:25 Meet Recast Software
02:40 Why Recast keeps sponsoring
03:38 Free community tools
05:26 Why customers call: app management
06:57 The Recast portfolio
09:42 OSDCloud and licensing
11:56 Applications are snowflakes
Guest
Ben Ward – Field CTO UK & Ireland, Recast Software
Recast at the summit
David Segura – What's new in OSDCloud Community Edition (Tue 15 Sep 15:50, Halle 36.3) · New OSDeploy Tools (Mon 14 Sep 15:00, Trafohall)
Nico Zieck – What 100 IT Pros Told Us About the Modern Workspace (Mon 14 Sep 13:40, Halle 36.1)
Hosts
Frans Oudendorp & Jose Schenardie
Recorded at Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 in Baden, Switzerland.
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