Ruben Spruijt has been producing “smackdown” whitepapers for a while. The newest whitepaper released performs a head-to-head analysis of Citrix, Endeavors, InstallFree, Microsoft, Spoon, Symantic, and VMware in terms of application virtualization. Application virtualization is a broad term and Ruben breaks the term down into 5 core technologies (or categories): streaming, virtualization, isolation, integration and re-direction. At the end of the whitepaper, there is a nice vendor comparison matrix comparing virtualization characteristics and over 30 manageability features.

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Technorati : Application Virtualization, Citrix, Endeavors, InstallFree, Microsoft, Spoon, Symantic, VMware
Del.icio.us : Application Virtualization, Citrix, Endeavors, InstallFree, Microsoft, Spoon, Symantic, VMware