Introduction

Writing this book has been a challenge because of the speed of change in the VMware end-user computing software products. When we first talked about the idea of writing about Horizon Suite, Mirage had just been acquired, Workspace was a 1.0 product, and the current release of View was 5.1. It is hard to believe that the evolution of the product line has happened so quickly in a little over a year. With the release of Horizon Suite 6, the need for a book that covers VMware View, Mirage, and Workspace has never been greater, so the effort was worth it.

Much greater than our challenge is the challenge for you, the reader, who is facing a world in which desktop management has become the management of stateless, mobile, streamed desktop ...

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