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It's done

SVS 2.0 is now released and available. It is not perfect, but it is really good. It has been four years in the making (and a few more than that in the dreaming).

My son Spencer, a couple of friends, and I decided that it would be fun to bring up a website where we would make available free products in VSA format for download. I've been so close to the code and bugs of SVS that I hadn't had the experience recently of just using the product the way other people would. It was a real pleasure to just download a ton of apps and package them up. I got thrilled all over again. (You can see our site at www.svsdownloads.com).

It has been very exciting to see the momentum building behind this technology. Externally the press and customers have been very excited by the new possibilities. Internally (to Altiris) virtualization is allowing other product teams to think of totally new ways of doing things that will bring just as revolutionary a change to their stuff as SVS is bringing to application management.

It has been a pleasure creating this. I hope that SVS somehow makes your computing life easier, better, safer, faster, and cheaper. I'm looking forward to using it myself.

Posted 03/22/06 by randy | Filed under: General

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Congratulations Randy. You should be very proud of your work on this product. I believe that it will improve the way our PCs work and the way our applications run.

Posted by Rich at 03/23/06 14:19:24

It's great you convinced the "higher ups" to give this product away for free. It's in the spirit of open source, which is great because as you say, this is about making computing cheaper.

Posted by Frank Targent at 03/28/06 22:03:16

This product is awwsome! Ive been using it for 3 days now and i havent found any application it cant virtualize - if i were Softgrid, i would be afraid :o)

Posted by Tommy Gade at 03/30/06 11:38:00

Does the virtual softwares bypass software firewall like zonealarm? As everything runs on top of svs will firewalls treat all programes running inside svs as one single programme and let every software access the net without any intervention? Just wandering....

Posted by silverferro at 04/23/06 03:48:59

No. The virtualized applications will be treated normally by the firewall.

Posted by randy at 04/24/06 10:00:24

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