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What I was hearing from peers was that ThinApp was not designed for large Enterprise.

It then became the case, that ThinApp seemed to be the third most popular Application Virtualization technology, behind App-V and XenApp Profiling. In my opinion, they also did a great job of encouraging people like me to collaborate and get involved with the Online community. As time went on App-V got ahead of the pack, likely because Microsoft had such a strong presence in the Enterprise already and may have been seen as less of a risk. It was still so ‘bleeding edge’ that it was considered a risky venture with more risk than reward. In fairness, at the same time not very many were embracing App-V either. Enterprise customers were not really adopting this technology. This was something I was interested in and wanted to use. What’s more, some applications I couldn’t capture successfully with App-V, worked with ThinApp, another win!! The VMWare trainer even had an old copy of Doom which he had captured as a ThinApp and could bring with him and run anywhere. It’s isolated just like an App-V application but doesn’t require a client! It seemed great. It was the first time I saw this concept of a portable virtual application. At the time I compared it to Softgrid\App-V and it was quite exciting. But is it too little, too late? I first started using ThinApp about 5 years ago. After years of no significant releases VMWare have now released ThinApp 5.0.