| Thoughts On Application Virtualisation / Streaming |
| Tuesday, 11 July 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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So among several other things this week I managed a quick sneak peak at an early (Alpha?) release of Citrix's Tarpon (Application Streaming) yesterday, what I found interesting was not that it would appear that Citrix are leaning towards using blue instead of red for some of the pretty bits? nor that there was a nice shiny new Citrix Client, but I suddenly realised that I was examining Tarpon from a purely Technical Focus and to really appreciate what might be possible meant that I had to shift to looking at it from a Marketing perpective, like asking myself will this product have legs? Forget about asking yourself if I would install and use the product, try something more like "Can I convince others to buy the Licensing?" and I think the answer is yes. This is what we do right? We are Techies, so we examine everything from a Technical perspective, don’t we? We look at Tarpon and it’s intended functionality and feature set and compare it to the other potential Application Virtualisation or Streaming products out in the market place today and try to figure out it’s weakness’s and strengths compared to these, and possibly even arrive at a conclusion as to how worthy it is for further consideration, or indeed even recommend it? Not supprisingly, as this is an Alpha Product, it is found wanting (at the moment) – and when we start comparing it to the features and functionality available in Softgrid 4.0 then it could be said to be well and truly behind the eight ball? Read on here.
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