Comments on: Application Virtualization comparison chart September 2009

By: Application virtualization comparison… and more! | Virtualfuture.info

Application virtualization comparison… and more! | Virtualfuture.info — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:18:33 +0000

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By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:23:11 +0000

This is a very well written, easy to understand chart. Very useful! I would like to make a few comments regarding the Xenocode product. In the “Patching with additional/incremental files” portion, you have a NO. We have successfully used the ability to create add on components to patch applications many times. So I say that should be changed to a YES. Also, the “Deploy to AD groups”, “Deploy to AD Domain / OU’s”, “Deploy to Computers”, “Deploy to AD users” should be a YES, since you simply use GPO’s for that (unless you have different criteria). Finally, “Shell Integration out?of?the?box” is there through an executable called “xreg.exe”. If you want to integrate a virtualized app into the shell, you simply add xreg to you execution statement.

By: Rob H

Rob H — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:54:57 +0000

Did you actually create an InstallFree .exe file? We were told by the sales and tech folks we worked with (Tier III-IV InstallFree developers as well) that they had nixed that function over licensing concerns. We saw an old version that had that capability and they wouldn’t let us go back to that and wouldn’t entertain providing that type of functionality.

As for Xenocode, you really ought to look at their Spoon piece. They are not only a very responsive, flexible and creative group, they also build good software! We like what we’ve seen so far and are conducting an in-depth evaluation of this capability. The ability to deploy on any web server and the fact that a streamed app runs at bare metal speed is just amazing. They also have application usage reporting in their roadmap, which, IMHO, is probably more important than the technology itself.

We looked at the other solutions you mentioned in the review as well, even spent money and time on a few. We’ll see how Spoon shakes out, but they do look promising. And no, I don’t own stock!

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:51:11 +0000

Thank you for this comparison. We just finished testing several of these in house and your chart provided a number of comparison points that we hadn’t considered. One item to your chart that you might want to add is URL redirection. The ability to map different URLs to different virtuallized browser environments with different plug-ins is very useful.

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By: John Ba

John Ba — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:12:54 +0000

Great article. Just wondering when the next version will be released as I am interested in the Windows 7 support side of things. Thanks.

By: Application Virtualization Comparison Chart « v-Apps

Application Virtualization Comparison Chart « v-Apps — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:06:58 +0000

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By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:28:02 +0000

Great job!
We run app-v on ts servers and are looking for using it on our desktops also.
But with SA and MDOP required, we hare probely going for vmware or installfree. In vmwares case it vould be 1/5 of the price.
Thansk again for the chart.

By: Migrate to Windows 7 with InstallFree | Virtualfuture.info

Migrate to Windows 7 with InstallFree | Virtualfuture.info — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:55:39 +0000

[...] blog about how to migrate to Windows 7 for all the application virtualization products from our comparison chart. In the mean time, you can check the video from InstallFree about the universal client [...]

By: Arjan

Arjan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:29:13 +0000

The comparison sheet is just what I needed. SO thanks for that.
Only item I would like to see added is some pricing info.