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Pros
  • + Integration with App Volumes and Horizon. Next to App-V, it's the most widely used product.
  • + Relatively high rate of app compatibility. Flexibile solution with a tool for manually adding apps to servers with the SWV tool or stream with SWS.
  • + Highest rate of app compatibility of all virtualization products. The simplest packaging of all products, very little skill required. Native support for drivers. Ability to control isolation or integration of individual files and reg keys. Citrix Ready and SCCM Integrated.
Cons
  • - Though packaging is pretty streamlined and relatively simple with a series of text files, making updates to large applications requires recompiling the .exe which can take a long time. Development was pretty slow and this was the last product to support 64-bit applications. Newer versions of Office or new Windows Operating System have limited functionality.
  • - Development of the product was a bit slow compared to those from smaller vendors. EOL.
  • - Doesn't have a very large online community outside of Software2's recipe library which is not free.
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General
60%
86%
58%
Support Status
Product is supported (Not End Of Life )
Supported
SWV\SWS is now EOL
Supported
Under active development
Yes
No
Yes
Maturity
Proven technology
Yes
Yes
Yes
Public enterprise references in Europe
Yes
Yes
Yes
Public enterprise references in US
Yes
Yes
Yes
Official training classes available
Yes
Yes
Yes
Official Certification program: VUE/Prometric
No
No
Yes
Public showcase of 25+ applications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Public showcase of 50+ applications
Yes
No
No
Large community resource
Yes
Yes
Yes
Solution licensing
Concurrent licensing
Available
Available
Available
Device licensing
Available
Available
Available
Unlimited licensing
Available
Available
Available
Per named user licensing
Available
None
Available
Free for personal use
No
No
No
Services Provider License Agreement
No
No
Yes
Virtualization Characteristics
60%
86%
58%
Isolation
Full virtualization/isolation of apps
Yes
Yes
Yes
Full integration of apps in Operating System
No, three isolation modes available but none to run completely without isolation
No