Damn what a surprise this is… I never expected that VMware would buy Thinstall. But it seems they’re really going to compete with Microsoft(Softgrid) and Citrix(Presentation Server). I do believe that Thinstall is one of the most promising Application Virtualization tools around. I’ve seen a couple of demos by my colleague Edwin Friesen of Thinstallguru.com and was amazed by the simplicity and effectiveness.
With VDI, the range of Virtual Appliances and Thinstall VMware is definitely on for the challenge. After the speculation of Virtualization.info I dug into Fastscale and it wouldn’t surprise me if they are next on the list.
I realy believes that Thinstall is one of the best Application Virtualization products at this moment. I also know that they must keep hard working to be the best of them! Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 (SoftGrid) has a new feature called “Dynamic Suiting”. With that it is possible to create “bubble-to-bubble” communication between different sandboxes. For now it is not fully functional with all kind of middleware but they are still working to get all things work in version 5.0 (expected in 2009). The big question is what VMware is going to do with this?