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At a recent Microsoft event I went to I happened to go to a presentation on MS virtualisation products and strategies. One of their offerings was a product called "Softgrid" which was an application virtualization product. The virtualization is done at the application rather than the machine level so incompatible apps can run on the same machine without driver and registry conflicts causing mayhem - theses requirements are included in the application virtualization space and do not affect the local machine (at least that's the technical theory)
You can maybe see why they created (bought) this kind of technology as it gets around exactly the kind of problems that Windows seems to create for itself, in any event I thought it was another pretty cool alternative technolgoy for rolling out apps. If i was just starting out deploying Windows apps I'd take a good look at it. I think it also has some interesting possibilities for packaging things up from a vendor perspective as it might help reduce those support calls that are due to the end users environment rather than the application...
You can find a few more details on it at http://www.softricity.com/ or google for windows application virtualizationI'm not saying this stuff works, just that I thought it was pretty interesting and worthy of further investigation :)
regards Evan Harris At 03:34 a.m. 23/03/2007, you wrote:
Terminal Server runs on Windows, so yeah, you would need a Windows server. You create a 'burn' or image of the software you want to load, and then you copy it down to the internal 'drive', which is actually just memory. You can map drives from the thin client to a server (including the i5) and load any software from there. Consistency primarily...all the fat clients run iSeries Access, so it makes sense from a support standpoint to not have something different. There emulation is just a bit funky, and there was no real reason to use it. On 3/22/07, Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was also trying to avoid a Windows Server.. > or maybe I'm wrong here...what's a terminal server ? > > You can run Access on these clients ? > > I gotta ask, how do you load Access on a box with no drive ? > > I guess I should also ask why Access over their emulation ? > > Michael Ryan wrote: >
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