An interesting article describing five new technologies that will change the way you do business. That and it mentions the SR4 (a robot whose software I'm responsible for).
Autopackage...Tux's answer to .msi and .exe installers
Take a look at the new autopackage installation system... Don't worry about dependencies , sticky RPMs and loads more... It's not a replacement to any "traditional" package managers, but is rather focused on non-system user-level applications.