Yesterday Citrix announced a Feature Pack for XenApp 5. This Feature Pack doesn’t contain any new cool features (too bad), but makes some big changes in the licensing model for XenApp 5. Next to XenServer which will now be a core component of XenApp 5 (and will also be for free when you don’t even use XenApp...), Provisioning Server will part of XenApp 5 Platinum Edition.
This is huge news! Customers that have a Platinum license can now make use of Provisioning Server for deploying their XenApp farm without paying around $800,- per server.
Read the Citrix blog entry here.
Also take a look at the 3 part HOWTO guide for Deploying your XenApp server with Citrix Provisioning Server!