International Business Machines Corporation

Kalonji K Bankole

Jason L Anderson

Shaun T Murakami

Andrew C Bodine

Gregory J Boss

John Elbert Moore, Jr

Sachin K Mahajan

Processes, machines, and manufactures involving adaptable containers that can be built and torn down more efficiently than VMs, may support various processes, and may be maintained without the presence of an active process. These adaptable containers may also be configured to support a process type and may support various processes at the same time as well. Other features and aspects are provided and taught.

Container runtime support

For a software product delivered as a hosted service from a host, the host delivers, to a single user interface, a current version of the software product comprising one or more selectable functions of the current version of the software product, wherein the current version of the software product is one version of multiple separate versions of the software product. The host updates the single user interface to display at least one selectable previous version function from at least one previous version of the separate versions of the software product. In response to receiving a user selection within the single user interface to access a particular selectable previous version function, the host delivers the functionality of the particular selectable previous version function from a particular previous version of the software product within the single user interface for the current version of the software product.

Managing user access to alternative versions of a particular function of a software product from within a current version of the software product

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Kalonji K Bankole