

We have been able to evolve our own licensing over the years to accommodate our situations between concurrent versus user device licenses.

Citrix has found more dynamic ways to be able to revive licensing models that fit many different scenarios that organizations have.

According to the company, it can be used with existing management tool sets and works with a variety of operating systems including Windows NT, 2000, XP and Vista. ThinApp's "secret sauce" is that it's agentless, a feature pioneered by Thinstall, requiring no pre-installed software on physical or virtual PCs. ThinApp 4.0 also allows a PC user to run the same application under different releases. It decouples OS and applications which eliminates software installation conflicts and reduces regression testing, resulting in reduced desktop management costs and user downtime. Competitors such as Microsoft with SoftGrid and Citrix with Application Streaming also have offerings in this market.Īccording to Ed Albanese, senior product manager, ThinApp 4.0 has been enhanced with several additional features including Application Link, which allows interdependent applications to be more effectively integrated and Application Sync which can stream updates to an end user's applications using HTTP/HTTPS.Īpplication virtualization can be used on both virtual and physical PCs, as well as an enhancement to VMware's server-based desktop virtualization platform, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. The product is been developed as a result of the company's acquisition of Thinstall last January. VMware has announced VMware ThinApp 4.0, its major offering in the emerging market for application virtualization. News VMware Unveils ThinApp 4.0 for Application Virtualization
