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BMW went looking for an Application Virtualization solution.  Their requirements?

• 80,000 PCs with 3000 64-bit PCs, deployed across 24 production sites in 13 countries with 250 global branch locations
• Over a 1000 applications to deploy, including Office 2010, Visio 2007, Project 2007, etc.
• Upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7
• 4 week-long packaging & compatibility testing cycles per application

The result?  BMW chose Microsoft App-V.  Here’s the money quote:

"We found App-V streaming to be better than the comparable [VMware] ThinApp capability," says Dr. Martin Rudolph, Product Manager, Office Applications, BMW Group. "Packaging, testing, and delivering applications is so much faster, and by enabling zero-touch deployment, App-V helps us realize significant monetary savings."

Read more about why BMW chose Microsoft’s App-V technology over VMware’s ThinApp:

• CIO Magzine:  BMW Takes a Sharp Turn Toward App Virtualization
  http://www.cio.com/article/594401/BMW_Takes_a_Sharp_Turn_Toward_App_Virtualization