Comments on: Many ways to deliver applications http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/03/16/many-ways-to-deliver-applications/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/03/16/many-ways-to-deliver-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-211 Anonymous Sun, 19 Mar 2006 13:01:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/03/16/many-ways-to-deliver-applications/#comment-211 Thats a great point, in fact years ago I thought that this would be the dominat way in which applications would be delivered, ie just run them from a file server or copy them to your PC. However with the registry and DLL issues it never panned out. Now however we see many modern XP applications that run just fine without installation, like maxthon. I did a search on google hoping to find a list of examples, but could not find a good source. I was thinking of a number of possible sources, applications that people are running from a USB stick, applications people are running from their ipod etc. It's also worth noting that "applications that just run" is what platforms like SoftGrid do for legacy applications that would otherwise need to be "installed". Thats a great point, in fact years ago I thought that this would be the dominat way in which applications would be delivered, ie just run them from a file server or copy them to your PC. However with the registry and DLL issues it never panned out. Now however we see many modern XP applications that run just fine without installation, like maxthon. I did a search on google hoping to find a list of examples, but could not find a good source.

I was thinking of a number of possible sources, applications that people are running from a USB stick, applications people are running from their ipod etc. It’s also worth noting that “applications that just run” is what platforms like SoftGrid do for legacy applications that would otherwise need to be “installed”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/03/16/many-ways-to-deliver-applications/comment-page-1/#comment-210 Anonymous Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:59:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/03/16/many-ways-to-deliver-applications/#comment-210 Inside the old way, I think there are at least two subsets -- things that require an install (i.e., most big things) and things that just run (e.g., capslock utility; pure text utility). I really like the things that just run, don't kludge up the various parts of windoze, and can be gotten rid off with a plain old delete. Sigh, shouldn't everything be like that. There is proabably a third subset of things that install and can't be rooted out -- for all intents and purposes -- without a reinstall of the OS like McAfee. Hope this aids in the taxonomy. Inside the old way, I think there are at least two subsets — things that require an install (i.e., most big things) and things that just run (e.g., capslock utility; pure text utility). I really like the things that just run, don’t kludge up the various parts of windoze, and can be gotten rid off with a plain old delete. Sigh, shouldn’t everything be like that. There is proabably a third subset of things that install and can’t be rooted out — for all intents and purposes — without a reinstall of the OS like McAfee. Hope this aids in the taxonomy.

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