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Mon, April 13, 2009 — CIO — CIO Roxanne Reynolds-Lair of The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising wanted to bring both Macs and Windows to her college’s students, administrative employees and teachers. She bought a MacBook Pro and tested new-fangled desktop virtualization software that allows her to run both Windows and OS X on a single machine.

Then she looked at software licensing, which is struggling to catch up to the emerging virtual desktop world. Shaking her head, Reynolds-Lair shelved the desktop virtualization project. “It doesn’t make sense,” she says. “It’s really not ready yet.”

An interesting article talking about licensing in desktop virtualization, something I’ve written about before, do check it out, it’s a good read.

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