"Parallels today announced that its Desktop for Mac virtualization software is available for purchase for $79.99, following the conclusion of a Beta program that generated more than 100000 testers from 71 countries and has resulted in the current stable, high-performance version. As a special incentive to new customers, the company will make the product available for $49.99 for 30 days following today's announcement."
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"why on earth would you need several environments (ubuntu, bsd, windows, mac os x) at a client site? and give me an honest answer."
A good example is the company I work for develops simulations software. The software is cross platform, and the sales guys need to demonstrate that at a client site in order to get a sale. Huge benefit to be able to run multiple VM's, so the sales team only has to carry 1 laptop as they trudge through the airports, instead of spending money to ship several computers to a client site.
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I think you're defining "client" overly narrowly. I worked at a place which was writing simulation software for a DARPA contract. Since our "product" was a research platform, we couldn't be sure who would end up ultimately using it, or on what OS. To cite another example, in our department at the University I attend, there are people who must maintain simulation software used by researchers (who are the "customers"). The researchers just happen to be on different kinds of machines (a bunch of older Solaris/SPARC boxes, some newer Linux/x86 boxes, and a Linux/Itanium cluster that's coming in). I'm sure a multi-platform laptop would come in real handy doing support for those guys.
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Yeah, bring a couple of laptops the next time you visit your clients so you can run OS X, Ubuntu, *BSD and Windows. Why on Earth would I only want to carry a single laptop?
Jeeez, what works for YOU most certainly doesn't work for ME. Get over it and stop pushing YOUR world down OUR throats.