Wednesday, 2 August 2006

Altiris SVS Now Open for Developers

Altiris has announced that it has made its Software Virtualization Solution available to developers and programmers. The release of the SVS API, included within a new software development kit, and the release of Trinket to the open source community via SourceForge.net will help IT organizations leverage the flexibility of SVS and further optimize application management, Altiris said.

Altiris said these initiatives will help Altiris drive its objective to establish SVS as the most widely used software virtualization technology in the world.

The SVS SDK provides the same APIs used by the Altiris SVS development team and LordJeb Software. The SVS SDK also contains C header files, a lib file, documentation and sample code.

"We’ve seen an explosion of unique uses and applications for Altiris Software Virtualization Solution technology. To encourage innovation we have given the IT and developer communities the tools and code they need to create the next killer software virtualization application. Altiris open, standards-based technology allows us to provide this type of flexibility to the user community. The Trinket open source project is a good example of what is possible using the Altiris SVS SDK," said Dwain Kinghorn, Altiris CTO.