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Parallels Inc.’s Parallels Desktop is virtualization software. It lets users boot one operating system and simultaneously run a second one as a “guest.” AWC has been testing Parallel’s new coherence technology, which lets Windows applications run as if they were native to the Mac. The retail price for Parallels is $79 per desktop.
While IT staffers at AWC are rewriting the company’s main VIPS application in Java, Parallels Desktop will enable the company to boot Apple’s OS X operating system on Intel Macs and run Windows XP as the guest.
“In coherence mode, everything looks exactly as it does in the Windows environment, but the underlying OS is the Mac,” says AWC CIO Dale Frantz. “That’s what attracted me. For the people on our shop floor, this doesn’t look any different at all.”
In testing so far, “our experience has been flawless,” says senior programmer/analyst Robert Mullen. “But I would imagine that as we stress the system and associates on the floor use it, things will come up.”
Running a second operating system in a virtual environment raises licensing issues that have yet to be definitively settled, so Parallels recommends that users running its software buy a full retail copy of Windows.
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