Comments on: SoftGrid: Sequencing Adobe Acrobat 8 – The Story So Far

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:24:48 +0000

Hi Lance, I’ve not looked into this further since these posts. I’ve also not heard back from Adobe either. I’ll have to chase them up in the new year.

By: Lance

Lance — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:35:33 +0000

Just curious if you ever found a way to get this stable and update running(no CPU spike).

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:48:13 +0000

I’ll have to check out AppExpress, but the decision has already been made here for SoftGrid. We already have plans for moving to 4.5 as soon as possible.

Thanks for the feedback Derek.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:06:11 +0000

btw nice writeup!!

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:59:03 +0000

Yeah, I’ve heard good things about AppExpress too. I think I might try that just for fun.

By: Tad

Tad — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:33:05 +0000

You ought to give AppExpress a try Aaron. It’s available as a free trial or the newly released Lite version at tryitnow.endeavors.com

Endeavors technology pioneered application streaming and hold the patents to it and they recently licenced their technologies to Citrix and Microsoft. Under AppExpress the applications behave more or less as if they are locally installed and all can ‘talk’ to each other, which sounds like the problem you’re having.

By: stealthpuppy / Sequencing Adobe Illustrator CS3

stealthpuppy / Sequencing Adobe Illustrator CS3 — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:01:32 +0000

[...] with my earlier posts on sequencing Adobe Acrobat 8 and Adobe Photoshop CS3, I’ve struck the same manifest issues with Illustrator CS3. [...]

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:30:36 +0000

I can’t agree with Virtguru’s comment that SoftGrid is not a real virtualisation product, but it does just work in SVS (which I do like). I’m waiting for an official word back from Adobe about Acrobat and SoftGrid, so hopefully something to report then.

By: stealthpuppy / Sequencing Adobe Photoshop CS3

stealthpuppy / Sequencing Adobe Photoshop CS3 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:26:49 +0000

[...] with SoftGrid/Microsoft Application Virtualisation certainly takes a lot of patience, because like Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop took quite a long time to sequence and troubleshoot. Sequencing the application alone [...]

By: Mikkel N.

Mikkel N. — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:40:34 +0000

I have to agree with Virtguru on this one. The virtual shells created around the Adobe and Microsoft software packages conflicts with the products ability to “talk” to each other. Acrobats integration with MS Office seems impossible with SoftGrid right now. At least I have given up

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:19:57 +0000

ooh the Softricity boys wouldn’t like you..

By: Virtguru

Virtguru — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:09:20 +0000

You should use a real virtualization products like SVS and/or AppStream. Softgrid is an isolation product to avoid DLL conflicts and cannot be used for general purpose software distribution. using Softgrid it is very difficult to distribute MS office, Adobe acrobat and other products that integrate closely with the OS and other applications on the machine. Also many of the license management products cannot see the applications distributed by Softgrid so managing these applications will be a nightmare unless you use SMS and support the MS monopoly .