Portable Applications

In reaction to the fact that large applications, such as office suites, are tightly locked to the specific machine on which they are installed, groups have sprung up with the specific objective of creating portable applications.

As this frequently requires the modification of application code, this is most often done with open-source applications. A Web site particularly active in this is PortableApps.com, created by John T. Haller.

An overview is given in an article is the July 2007 issue of Scientific Computing magazine article.