In this podcast the CEO of Endeavors Technologies is interviewed and covers their application virtualization technology and their patent agreements with other vendors. The highlights of the podcast are listed below.
The most important information I found out of this interview is that their technology will allow virtualized or streamed applications to talk to each other. This means with their product you will not need to sequence all the dependencies with each application, for example, you would not need to sequence the .NET Framework each time.
Apparently they have reached patent agreements with Citrix and Microsoft but not with LANDesk and Altiris but during the interview the CEO claims that with the two companies, Endeavor Technology and Stream Theory, they hold the oldest and widest patents and make it impossible to virtualize apps without infringing on their patents.
You can download a free copy of their software from their site but their was no mention of how much their software costs, if you knew about Softricity back before they were part of Microsoft the server alone was $50,000 and then you had to pay per seat as well, now the server is free and if you have an EA or SA agreement you pay per CAL and it is part of the Desktop Optimization Pack which I think is about $10 per CAL but also includes several other apps.
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Endeavor Technologies - App Express
- Irvine, CA based company
- Recently purchased Stream Theory
- Designed first app streaming technology back 2000 - 2001
- Hold some of the earliest patents on app streaming
- Licensing agreements with Microsoft and Citrix over patent disputes
- 13 patents covering a wide range of technology and depth of engineering which gives them a wide of patent infringement
- Does not have agreements with Symantec/Altiris and LANDesk but implied infringement
- Can stream or virtualize applications
- Drawbacks of virtualization of apps versus streaming applications (non-virtualized)
- App Express Advantages
- Age in market
- Very scalable
- During testing App Express usually out performs competitors
- Does not require additional ports to be open to work
- All published apps can talk to each other
- Operates well over the Internet for remote users
- Publishing applications with a greater amount of success
- NTPC for streaming
- Uses snap shotting
- Each server manages 10k users
- Separate administration server/application
- Vodaphone in Japan - 200,000 users largest customer
- Soon to launch a free consumer version for use at home
- Putting an app on a"jukebox" so that different family members can check in and check out an application without violating licensing agreements.
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Anthony
Anthony Clendenen | Solutions Engineer | 1E Inc.
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