[Macpartners] Macintosh Virtualization Evaluation Support Recommendation

[Patrick McNeal]

Good afternoon,

Information Services & Technology's Macintosh virtualization  
evaluation team has completed their work.  In light of the recent  
VMware license announcement, the group focused on VMware Fusion and  
came up with these main recommendations:

* Users should WAIT to install virtualization software until a formal  
release project is able to develop and implement a support model for  
VMware Fusion.  This project is already in its initial phase.

* At this time, Parallels users are encouraged not to migrate to  
VMware Fusion solely because of the VMware license.

To read the full recommendation, including further background and  
discussion, see:
http://mit.edu/swrt/releases/virtualization/recommendation.pdf

The team would like to thank everyone that contributed to this  
project, specifically those that attended one of our community  
forums.  Your input gave us a better understanding of virtualization  
needs at MIT and helped guide IS&T's evaluation and recommendation.

If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail us at virtualization-eval at mit.edu

--Patrick

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Patrick McNeal
Macintosh Platform Coordinator - Software Release Team Client Support
Services Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of
Technology N42-250E Cambridge, MA 02139
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mcneal at mit.edu