title: What installation product to use? InstallShield, WiX, Wise, Advanced Installer, etc
body: <p>I'm currently doing some investigation on moving off of the installation package we currently use (Wise Installer 9) and moving to something that will handle things like Windows Vista, Windows&nbsp;7 and 64-bit systems. Localization of the installers would be of benefit since we do have a number of French Canadian clients as well.</p>
  
  <p>We currently have installations for software packages and utilities in the following technologies:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Progress 4GL</li>
  <li>Visual Studio 2005</li>
  <li>Visual Studio 2008</li>
  <li>.NET Compact Framework 3.5</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I've already looked at <a href="http://wix.sourceforge.net/" rel="noreferrer">WiX</a> and <a href="http://www.acresso.com/products/is/installshield-overview.htm" rel="noreferrer">InstallShield</a>, and also the <a href="http://www.symantec.com/business/wise-installation-studio" rel="noreferrer">Altiris made replacement</a> for the old Wise system.</p>
  
  <p>I haven't played with InstallShield much at all yet, but from everything I've seen/installed it seems to be one of the industry favourites. I've browsed through some of the Stack Overflow tags relating to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstallShield" rel="noreferrer">InstallShield</a> and I'm curious to see what the group says about it.</p>
  
  <p>Do I just by default go to them? How good is WiX at non-.NET stuff?</p>