August 04, 2008

Test Center review: VMware ThinApp 4.0

Once an awkward teenager, ThinApp 4.0 is now, in the words of tester Randall Kennedy, "a suddenly more mature and polished application virtualization product that is headed in the right direction."

And the design team is addressing lingering issues that hampered scalability. "Overall, ThinApp is shaping up to be a great successor to the powerful, yet frustratingly incomplete Thinstall of yore," Kennedy writes. "However, the product is not without its shortcomings."

Read the full review: Thinstall app virtualization grows up.

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