Wise Installation Studio discontinued

Symantec discontinues Wise Installation Studio and Wise Installation Express.

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Effective April 19, 2010, Symantec will no longer be accepting orders for new licenses of Wise Installation Studio or Wise Installation Express. In addition, Symantec will no longer be accepting renewals for maintenance agreements related to Wise Installation Studio effective April 19, 2010.

ComponentSource offers a range of alternative installation solutions including:

• InstallAware Studio - includes Wise migration wizard
• InstallAware Studio Admin - includes Wise migration wizard
• InstallAware Developer - includes Wise migration wizard
• InstallAware Express - includes Wise migration wizard
• Setup Factory
• InstallShield 2010 Professional
• InstallShield 2010 Express

To view other alternative products, please see the Installation category.

For more information visit:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/installsite/archive/2010/04/13/symantec-discontinues-wise-installation-studio-and-wise-installation-express.aspx

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.

Wise and Altiris joined forces in December, 2003, with the combined goal of providing the best service-oriented management solutions for our customers. On April 6, 2007, Altiris became part of Symantec, combining its endpoint management capabilities with the security and back-up expertise of Symantec to deliver a unique set of solutions to the market.

Preparing applications for deployment through enterprise software packaging and developing Windows Installer installations is a critical component of Altiris service-oriented management solutions. Wise Package Studio has been and will continue to be focused on providing the strongest application packaging functionality available in the market for all our customers regardless of distribution system. Altiris, now part of Symantec, will also continue to support Windows Installer technology and our full line of developer products.