Lots of good commentary on VMWare’s new Horizon App Manager today, which is what their Tricipher acquisition seems to have turned into. The phrase that struck me the most — thus this post — was Krishnan‘s description at CloudAve:

a user-centric management service for accessing cloud applications from any device.

It clearly is user-centric: it brings together the apps a user might want to run, and lets them get at them with a single click. But it is the opposite of the user-centricity model so far prevalent in identity circles:

In the CardSpace / i-Card etc model, the wallet would contain cards for each identity, from which the user would select which one to use with a given app. In the VMware model, it’s the other way round: the “wallet” contains apps, from which the user chooses, and authentication is automatic. Which one is going to be more powerful?