[Casper] Dual booting Macbooks!!!!

[Thomas Larkin]

The problem is with this software to my knowledge is that it is based on older PPC and classic architecture and while it does in fact run under Rosetta when it writes results to their database it corrupts it.  This is a problem particular to OS X so I think that using a PPC emulator or even an API like crossover or perhaps even a virtual machine will all be moot.  We have unlimited windows 98 client and I am installing a virtual machine of it right now via virtual box.  

We can't pick up a new product because there is no way to migrate the database to another technology.  The developer says they promise a web based product by 2009, but what does that mean?  All it means to me is that this next school year I will be forced to do whatever it takes to get this software to work.

This is a known issue and is why the developer offered to pay 90% of our one year lease costs of WinXP Pro on 6,000 clients.

I have done this before in iMac labs with Bombich's software and the boot camp beta, and it all worked.  However, the 1:1 laptop environment is a bit different.  After I get everything up and running I got to make sure the machine is still locked down on both sides since our students take their machines home, and because the FCC and CIPA require us to filter their Internet surfing.  

This will be a project indeed.

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
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tlarki at kckps.org
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>>> "Smith, William" <william.smith at merrillcorp.com> 06/30/08 12:24 PM >>>
On 6/30/08 12:14 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <tlarki at kckps.org> wrote:

> Due to powers that be it looks like I must load Windows on all of our Macbooks
> for one piece of software.  This is a critical piece of software that our
> users need and there is no alternative, for a long story short.  So, the
> software company that is in question is offering to pay for 90% of the costs
> for windows licenses for one year until they migrate their product to a web
> based one.

Any possibility at all that this could work in CrossOver Mac? I know not
every Windows application works but if it does work for your application
then it means less overhead.

-- 

bill

William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
MCS IT
Merrill Communications, LLC
(651) 632-1492

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