Comparing App Streaming To Thin Clients: Pros And Cons

Tuesday, 15 August 2006 by Michel Roth

With the emergence of virtualization as an option for application delivery to user desktops, IT shops have something new to weigh when considering the consolidation of application resources.

When most technical experts refer to application virtualization, what they are talking about is application streaming, which is a job handled by products such as SoftGrid technology from Microsoft's recent acquisition of Softricity, Altiris Inc.'s Software Virtualization Solution and Project Tarpon, currently in beta from Citrix Systems Inc.

This contrasts with server-based computing and thin client computing, which is also occasionally referred to in marketing parlance as an application virtualization technology. Here the term virtualization is used in a more comprehensive manner. The products widely used for thin client computing come from Citrix, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Microsoft.

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