I grew up in New Hampshire. So when I was a kid, if we were gonna go to “the big city,” for baseball, museums, shopping, whatever, Boston was it. Boston was, of course, at least partially famous for its “blue laws” and other generally conservative policies, and the phrase “banned in Boston” was part of the New England vernacular. Hence the title of this post.
Please allow me to digress from Altiris once again into the Novell world. [As an Altiris director said to me yesterday, when I admitted that there was too much red in an SVS graphic treatment that I had been advocating, "it's ok, Scott -- we all know that once you bleed Novell red, it's for life."] It bears emphasis here that opinions expressed on this blog are my own.
Here’s an updated list of the best blog posts, forum threads and podcasts on SVS:
beta@amanzi » Altiris Software Virtualisation Solution
Bobkous weblog aka kous.net » Blog Archive » Review: Altiris Software Virtualization Solution 2
Free condoms for your Windows install | MetaFilter
Kevin Dente’s PuppiesAndIceCreamBlog: Altiris SVS – a new kind of virtualization
OSBlues » Blog Archive » Altiris SVS killed my firefox
SuperJason’s Personal Blog: Altiris SVS – Software Virtualization Solution
SVS — Virtualize Software Installs (Software Gadgets)
SVS, a klik-alike application for the Windows OS? | www.kdedevelopers.org
The Hive Archive » Blog Archive » Virtualizing Firefox Bon Echo with Altiris SVS
The Tech Tap Podcast: Episode #021 – Team: SPF .08
tk here: Sandbox your apps
Travelling without Moving: Softricity SoftGrid vs. Altiris Software Virtualisation Solution
Live’s Major Nelson: Show #176 The one about the dash update
Tasty Programs (scroll to bottom)
Altiris Wise introduce wrappers for MSI virtualization
The Strong Cross (scroll to bottom)
Office 2007 Virtualization with Altiris SVS
Disclaimer (Oct ‘09): This page is a popular Google hit. I assume that’s due to significant community interest in virtualization, esp. desktop virtualization. However, this post is now only of historical value. The market has changed. The products have changed. Altiris (now Symantec) has changed its positioning and strategy significantly since this was written. For current info on Symantec Endpoint Virtualization, visit Symantec Connect.
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The SVS-SoftGrid battle has heated up the past two months. Of course, I did my part with that intentionally inflammatory previous post. Sorry about that. Hard to resist, and it was meant in a positive competitive spirit. Believe me, I’ve said much worse about Florida State fans! But the fact is there shouldn’t be much of a battle here; we’re talking about two very different products that do very different things. And each vendor needs to be doing a better job helping customers understand the differences and the applicability of each product to specific business problems.
I’ve been trying off and on for a few weeks to compose a comprehensive, useful response to some of the comments here and elsewhere. Haven’t been successful yet, mostly because — whatever may be going on in the competitive landscape — everyone here at Altiris has been busy selling SVS. Today, tho, we got a good post on the Juice from Edwin Yuen of Softricity. And I guess I just find it easier to respond to rational comments. 
Please check out our exchange and the whole comments thread below this article. Excelsior!
