[THIN] Re: Softricity
- From: "Charles Watts" <greg.watts@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:14:07 -0500
A few companies offer seamless Windows now via RDP (Provisional Network,
Sun's Global Desktop) so my guess this should be real easy for MS.
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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:03 PM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: Softricity
Bit o/t but the Vista comment was interesting.
Im itching to see how Microsoft deal with Seamless Apps
Citrix have been continiously working on such issues for many years now.
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From: Joe Shonk <mailto:joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:42 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Softricity
What about vista makes Citrix irrelevant? Citrix will be coming
out with their own version of Softgrid soon (For TS and Fat Clients
alike). This includes a better deliver mechanism (AIE had none) for
delivering the application.
Also, what is your purpose in virtualizing the applications? Is
it because of delivery? Application conflicts?
Softgrid is the best of breed... And even when Citrix comes out
with their version, Citrix will have to go through the whole learning
curve on what it means to isolate the applications. One of the
drawbacks we found with Softgrid is it Isolates the application too much
and the lack of management tools (Managing user profile/cache size is
non-existance) AIE suffers from lack of deployment tools as well as the
profile issue. It isolates too much in some areas and not enough in
others. I like that AIE can redirect, not just isolate the
files/folders and you can choose to install the application normal and
run it isolated, or you can install it in an isolated environment.
Which were you trying with IM?
Either way, prepare get into it pretty deep. Troubleshooting
and gettings things working can get pretty technical and required an
indepth understanding of what softgrid/AIE can/cannot do.
Joe
On 3/8/06, Charles Watts <greg.watts@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have been evaluating Softricity in our TS environment and
basically really like the idea of Virtualizing our applications. We have
tested about a dozen apps and with a little tweaking seem to be working
fine. We have looked at AIE from Citrix but had a bunch of problems
especially coming up with packages that would need to be deployed via
IM. Plus with Vista we might be closer to not using Citrix so we are not
leaning towards making Citrix our Application Virtualization standard. I
just wanted to know before we make the final investment with Softricity
If anyone else is using it and what have been your experiences. Good ?
Bad? It sucks? What apps will not work? Best practices?
Thanks,
Greg Watts
GTSI Corp.
202-231-8055
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