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Most importantly, what does this mean for you? What Is This Announcement all about? First off, let me explain the basics of this very important announcement. To summarize, Softricity has partnered with Microsoft to offer a product that integrates Softricity SoftGrid – including application virtualization, on-demand streaming and self-provisioning – right into Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). This means that any SMS customer can now virtualize their applications and use them throughout their existing SMS application deployment. They can push out virtualized applications using SMS’ delivery push methods, stream them on-demand using Softricity’s pull methods, and they can use SMS’s metering and asset management tools to discover and track both MSIs and virtualized applications. Softricity is offering two version of the product. SoftGrid for SMS Universal allows you to do all the things you can do with SoftGrid (virtualization and streaming) from within SMS. SoftGrid for SMS VX (
