VMWare, riding virtualization wave, buys Thinstall
VMware has acquired San Francisco company Thinstall, which sells a so-called “desktop virtualization technology,” continuing VMWare’s efforts to maintain its leadership position in the hot virtualization arena.
Desktop virtualization is considered the next wave of virtualization. In Thinstall’s case, it lets companies put applications more rapidly on PCs, and then pull them off again without trace. It works by packages up any Windows application and placing it on a PC without actual installation (it run on… Continue Reading