Peter Björk - VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

Peter Bjrk has many years of ThinApp experience. He started out working with Thinstall, and continued after VMware acquired the product in 2008, renaming it ThinApp. Peter supports ThinApp in the EMEA region. As a teacher, Peter has educated many ThinApp packagers around the world. Peter lives in Sweden with his wife and two kids, a boy and a girl.

I would like to thank the people who have supported me throughout the writing of this book. First and foremost, my thanks go out to my wonderful wife, Lena. Without her help and support, this book would never have been written. I know ThinApp to a depth not many others do, but my writing skills are clearly insufficient. Luckily, Lena has the gift of words, so with her support I managed to write this book. To my two wonderful kids, Albin and Filippa, who constantly remind me of whats important in my life. I would also like to thank my reviewers, Aaron Black and Adam Eckerle. Their valuable input was important for this book. I also thank PACKT Publishing for trusting in me to write this book. Its my first book and the team: Andrew Duckworth, Abhishek Kori, and Arun Nadar really helped me through the process. I must thank Jonathan Clark for coming up with the great idea of Thinstall, and with that created what became the better part of the my career. Last but not least, my thoughts go to the family of late Ge van Geldorp. Ge was an amazing developer and without his genius coding, ThinApp would not be what it is today. Ge, you are missed every day.

Aaron Black is a senior product manager at VMware in the End User Computing business unit. He is currently responsible for ThinApp, ThinApp Factory, and the Horizon integration with ThinApp. At VMware, he has worked in various positions in the field as a Systems Engineer, a stint in technical marketing, and now product management. His primary domain of knowledge revolves around all things that are applications related. At previous companies, he worked as a Systems Engineer with Citrix Systems, leading a technical corporate IT team at Sprint, and solutions design for a platinum reseller of VMware and Citrix products.

Adam Eckerle is a Solutions Architect at Network Storage, Inc in Indianapolis, IN, US (networkstorageinc.com). He has a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and has worked in Engineering and IT for more than 10 years. His primary focus is Datacenter Virtualization around the VMware vSphere platform. Other areas of focus are EMC storage platforms, Cisco UCS x86 server virtualization, and Vblock solutions. Among Adams industry certifications are Microsoft Certified IT Professional, VMware Certified Professional (4 & 5), and Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist.

Id like to thank my wife, Alexis, and our two young sons, Drew and Ethan, who have allowed me to follow my dreams and make every day worth living.