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Are you wondering what lies ahead for Thinstall?
April 25, 2008
It has been an incredibly exciting 2.5 months since VMware completed the acquisition of Thinstall in late January. We have been moving at an incredible pace; we’ve already released our first public beta, announced several major new features intended for GA of the product in early 2H2008, and have been meeting with customers, partners, and analysts to let them know where we’re headed and what the road ahead looks like. All the while, we have continued to keep the current version on the market and available for sale.
When I meet with customers and partners, some common questions come up consistently and I thought I’d share my answers to those questions a bit more widely.
Will Thinstall continue to be available for purchase independently? In other words, “will I be able to buy Thinstall standalone – and not be required to buy other VMware products to get access to it?”
Yes. 100% yes! One of the key reasons VMware acquired Thinstall was because we saw a gap in the current marketplace around application virtualization. The market, frankly, seemed artificially inhibited. We intend on opening the application virtualization market up and making software widely accessible to any existing or new customers without additional software, hardware, or unrelated support investments. We believe that this is a unique and compelling way to deliver application virtualization.
VMware plans to continue sales of the existing Thinstall products both standalone and in integrated fashion. In addition to incorporating elements of the Thinstall technology into many of its existing virtualization products, including VDI, ACE, Workstation and VI3, VMware will continue to sell this technology as an independent, standalone offering.
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