VMware have release a beta of its up and coming ‘ThinApp’ solution which I have a very strong interest in.

Some key features are:

• Virtual applications can communicate with each another
• There is no agent required to launch virtualised applications (this enables total portability)
• Virtual applications are compiled into industry formats such as ‘exe’ and ‘msi’ files (this enables complete integration into your existing application deploy mechanism).
• Virtual applications can be updated centrally