[THIN] Re: Softricity
- From: "Charles Watts" <greg.watts@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:11:59 -0500
I think the motivation is that we don't want to standardize our
applications with Citrix because MS is closing the gap with the feature
set that our requirements demand. It's very possible that when we look
at cost and feature sets that MS may win this battle. Softricity will
allow us to deploy our applications regardless of who wins. It also
allows to take advantage of this technology on our remaining fat
clients. We are on MPS 4.0 and to be truthful with you AIE was a major
pain for us for a number of reason but mainly replicating AIE in our
environment and many inconsistencies that could not be explained.
Sequencing Apps has been in my opinion a very straight forward and
simple process.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Shonk
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 5:42 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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