[antiRepublicrat]

Let's quit the nitpicking and go back to the original question -- is Mac viable for this? In the case of a migration, every company has to look at its specific circumstances. Let's say you're making your five-year budget and its time for new hardware. You can stay with Windows and count the license and personnel costs for that time. Or you can go Mac and incur a large migration cost. The math is different each time. But say your migration cost is $400,000. You make that up in one mid-level support position. The license savings are gravy. Sometimes it won't play out that way.

But if you're setting up from scratch I can't see how anybody would go with Windows if all options were researched.

[tacticalogic]

But if you're setting up from scratch I can't see how anybody would go with Windows if all options were researched.

That's still going back to looking at what you setting up for. If it involves reliance on mission critical, vertical market software then your OS platform starts being dictated by what the software you need will run on.

As far as the original question goes, I still want to know why being able to run Windows VMs on the Mac is supposed to be such a great idea in a corporate environment. If you do it, you end up with a bunch of Mac workstations you can claim are cheaper to manage than Windows workstations, and all the headaches that go with having a bunch of unmanaged Windows machines.