A good friend of mine shared these with me today, thought I’d share.

First, he introduced me to the Citrix Fast Launch Tool which can be used to “speed up” the application launch experience for XenApp users. According to the author, “The resulting benefit is a near instantaneous availability of the application when the user launches the application in XenApp.” I can verify that it does indeed do so.

http://community.citrix.com/display/xa/Citrix+Fast+Launch+Tool

Second, he sent me an application virtualization chart created by Virtual Future. It compares the features of the various application virtualization software packages in a nice, easy to follow format.

http://virtualfuture.info/2008/09/updated-application-virtualization-comparison-chart/