So, one of these I gave a presentation about Softgrid in an MDOP session, and one of the presents asked me the following question:

"So, if we have an Administrator's console to enable the streaming of the applications to the clients, why do we need SCCM 2007 (former SMS)?"

Obviously, I knew that Softgrid would have an integration with SCCM, but I didn't know what kind. But after doing some research, I found that this integration is arriving in the summer of 2008 and has some of the following features:

· Distribution Points are enabled to stream virtual applications to clients

· SCCM clients are configured to interact with the SoftGrid client to evaluate policy

· SCCM administrators use the SCCM Administrator Console to create virtual application packages and send them to distribution points

· SCCM Advertisements are used to deliver applications to clients

Hopefully the amount of features will increase, but after seeing these features, my question is... why are needing now the Softgrid's console if we have SCCM?