Spoon virtualization

“Spoon app virtualization technology allows complex applications to be deployed instantly on the web. Spoon virtualized apps require no setup, configuration, or device drivers, are isolated from external DLL and dependency conflicts, and run properly on locked-down desktops.”

“Unlike hardware virtualization solutions such as VMware and Virtual PC, which emulate the underlying hardware and therefore require an entire copy of the host operating system, Spoon app virtualization technology emulates operating system features required for application execution.”

“The virtualization engine handles requests within the virtualized environment internally or, when appropriate, routes requests to the host device filesystem and registry, possibly redirecting or overriding requests as determined by the virtual application configuration.”

“The Spoon kernel occupies roughly 500K of storage and adds negligible runtime performance overhead. And, because Spoon intelligently streams virtual environment data, most apps run with only 10% of app content transferred, dramatically reducing startup latency.”

“The Spoon virtual operating system kernel dynamically remaps shell folders (for instance, the My Documents and Application Data folders) to the appropriate location on each host device. Similarly, registry key values containing explicit path names or prefixes are dynamically remapped to the appropriate values for the executing host device.”

Supports latest Windows OS versions and popular runtime engines such as .NET,  Silverlight, Java and AIR.

Excerpts from Spoon virtualization.

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