Brian Madden recently sat down with some of VMWare’s staff to discuss various technologies within the company. One of those sit-downs turned into a really interesting podcast about VMWare ThinApp. ThinApp is a technology VMWare acquired earlier this year (although at the time the technology/company was called Thinstall). ThinApp is an application virtualization technology that has some similarities to Microsoft App-V (there are quite a bit of differences too). Anyway, this podcast that Brian hosted reveals how Thinstall got its start and how it has evolved in to the technology it is today. I think it is quite interesting to know that some of the beginnings of Thinstall had to do with copy protection.

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