[THIN] Re: Softricity
- From: "Douglas A. Brown" <dbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 08:06:38 -0500
Now that is a good subject. Has anyone else tried or uses Provision Networks?
They do not only seamless applications but they have true USB sync and many
other killer features. In some ways, it is more feature rich than Citrix, or
at least relevant features for today's world. I'm very impressed with their
solution. Very!
DB
Douglas A. Brown
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Microsoft MVP, Windows Server
DABCC, Inc.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Jim Kerr
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 12:01 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Softricity
Provision Networks can do seamless apps fine. In the last 2 weeks I've come
across 2 customers using Provision. You might want to check them out.
----- Original Message -----
From: M <mailto:mathras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Softricity
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 <mailto:greg.watts@xxxxxxxx>
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 <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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