VMware - solution selling

satanicguardian

satanicguardian

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Hey guys, no idea if anyone will have a clue about this.

I have just been talking to one of my companies customers about Apple devices, tethering and icloud. He expressed interest in also obtaining some iMac's as he likes the way they operate - only problem is that Sage accounts doesn't appear to be supported by OSX according to him. I briefly suggested obtaining the iMac's anyway and told him about the idea of Virtual machining, and running a small windows os on the mac's that require Sage. Does anyone know, firstly if this is possible (pretty sureeee it is) and secondly, if VMware as a company offer any small business partnerships or possibilities for solution selling to our customers as part of IT solutions. :)
 
Well you've got VMWare Fusion which I'm pretty sure used to be free, but appears to be £50 a pop now. Then you've got the cost of buying Windows on top at about £80 a go too (although this is for an OEM license which I'm not sure they can use here?).

VMWare have a partner program, but you'd have to have a look and see if you match what they're after and are big enough, I guess..
http://www.vmware.com/partners/
 
As above, licensing costs are the main thing.
That and getting users to understand wtf id going on with xp on their mac.
 
most if not all the companies that run sage use pc's even if in the rest of the company they use mac's, VM wouldn't be the answer as it would be cheaper and better to buy a cheap pc just for it when you have added all above up, plus training etc for mac users to learn win 7, as im not sure sage even supports win 8 as yet, but wouldn't put xp on it either now and win 7 has better hardware support and is in some ways a lot better now than xp, it's grown up and moved on, like win 8 will do after a SP or 2 :)
 
h88p://www.equationtech.us/sage_erp_accpac/compatibility-guide/

yes and no, you need to run a server, then the server version to get it to work
 
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