[THIN] Re: Softricity
- From: "M" <mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 23:22:50 -0000
I would love to know if they will work properly though.
I dont recall reading any post about seamless apps and other vendors.
This either suggests there arent many people who use other vendors, these
vendors have zero issues or Citrix have got things badly
wrong compared with other vendors.
Im not 100% certain how easy it will be for MS. Cant wait to try some borland
apps, Lotus Notes and a few other choice packages running seamlessly with Vista
:¬)
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Watts
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:14 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Softricity
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.
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of M
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:03 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Shonk
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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