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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Server and Tools Business News Bytes blog : Application Virtualization</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/tags/Application+Virtualization/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Application Virtualization</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Customer increases ROI with Microsoft Application Virtualization</title><link>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/2008/10/06/customer-increases-roi-with-microsoft-application-virtualization.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:56:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:3133032</guid><dc:creator>grantkd</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/comments/3133032.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/commentrss.aspx?PostID=3133032</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;Today Microsoft and Aspen Technology announced that the first deployment of aspenONE software using Microsoft Application Virtualization was completed by long-time customer BASF. Headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany, BASF is the leading chemical company in the world. &lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;BASF used Microsoft Application Virtualization to accelerate how quickly its worldwide process engineering team can begin using and realizing value from new releases and updates of the aspenONE Process Engineering suite. &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;By using Microsoft Application Virtualization to deploy aspenONE software, BASF is now achieving additional IT and operational cost savings and faster performance improvements. Microsoft’s &lt;SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"&gt;virtualization technology decouples applications from operating systems and runs software as network services, making applications available whenever and wherever they are needed, even when disconnected from the network.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
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&lt;P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;&lt;FONT face=Calibri&gt;For more information about today’s announcement, please visit the following sites:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol"&gt;&lt;SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore"&gt;&lt;FONT size=3&gt;
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