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If you don't want to pay for VMWare Fusion on the Macs. Virtual Box is a great alternative. I use it at work when IEs for linux won't do what I want. It's available for Mac, Linux and Windows so it's a pretty good versatile solution. -- Feanil On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote: > On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > > Over half the time, I'm finding that these folks are choosing a Mac, > > despite > > the fact that each person's job title starts with the word "Linux". > > That doesn't surprise me. > > > That said--we do have a lot of challenges dealing with Macs because > > of the > > infernal dependency on Internet Explorer that so many apps have. > > (Including > > I have a few solutions for this -- and in fact they're the same > solutions that I'd use with a Linux desktop or notebook as I would > with Macintosh. > > The cheap, quick & dirty solution: run IE with WINE using IEs 4 Linux > or IEs 4 Mac: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page > Pros: cheap. Cons: some ActiveX controls don't work. > > The brute force solution: dual-boot with Windows as a secondary OS. > Pros: reliable. Cons: painful, potentially costly depending on > Windows site licensing, users can mess up configurations and render > the computers unbootable without sysmonsterly assistance. > > The elegant solution: build a Windows appliance in VMware and run it > with VMware Player (Linux) or Fusion (Mac). > Pros: reliable, not painful like dual-booting, easy to deploy and > maintain. Cons: potentially costly depending on Windows site > licensing, there is no Player for Mac and Fusion is not free. > > The clever solution: assuming a sane VPN that Macintosh can use, set > up a Windows machine inside the network for remote users and use VNC > or Remote Desktop or whatever you like to drive it. > Pros: inexpensive, reliable. Cons: dependent on users not screwing up > their own computers, nearly useless with slow network links. > > I'm partial to the VMware solution. While it can have the highest up > front monetary cost it is also the easiest to manage. Appliances are > easy to deploy as ZIP files and they are their own backups. If an > appliance is corrupted or destroyed you can delete the damaged > appliance, unpack the ZIP file, and run with the clean copy. > > --Rich P. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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