Companies considering their options in application provisioning in 2008 could
be interested in a new tool that checks preparedness for migrations to Windows
Vista or Microsoft’s on-demand application streaming program,
Application
Virtualisation, formerly known as SoftGrid.
AppDNA’s AppTitude 2.0 automates software testing to assess application
compatibility status, a classic problem for companies planning a transition to a
new operating system. The new release includes support for applications that are
not in Windows Installer format to over complete estates of applications.
“Only 20 to 25 per cent of applications exist in the MSI (Windows Installer)
format so we’ve built in batch processing, using a virtual machine to capture
the installation process and analyse the files,” said Paul Schnell, chief
technology officer at AppDNA.