[Macpartners] Macintosh Virtualization Evaluation - Kickoff and Outreach Sessions

[Patrick McNeal]

Good afternoon,

Information Services & Technology (IS&T) has chartered a Macintosh
Virtualization Evaluation Team to review the need for and use of
virtualization technology in the MIT community - with a particular  
focus on
Parallels and VMware Fusion.  Such virtualization software allows
Intel-based Macintosh computers to run "guest" operating systems, such  
as
Windows XP, Vista, and Linux, simultaneously with Macintosh OS X.

During the evaluation process, the team will address a number of areas,
including:  customer requirements, associated costs, licensing options
provided by vendors, and available technologies.  At the end of the  
project,
the team will recommend the level of support that IS&T should provide  
for
virtualization on Macintosh computers.

Input from the MIT community is critical to the success of this project.
For this reason, we are inviting anyone interested in virtualization  
on the
Macintosh to attend one of our upcoming outreach sessions:

   Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in N42 Demo Center
   Thursday, December 6, 2007, Noon - 1:00 pm in 32-141 ( Stata Center )

The purpose of these sessions is to help the team understand what the  
MIT
community is doing with virtualization on the Macintosh and gauge user  
needs
over the next few years.

The team will post updates throughout the evaluation process on our
Virtualization Evaluation Release Notebook, which you can find at:

   http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/virtualization/

If you have questions or comments please contact the team via email at
virtualization-eval at mit.edu.

--Patrick

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Patrick McNeal
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team
Information Services and Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building N42-250E Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
+1 617 253-0196
mcneal at mit.edu