Most instructors can barely teach the app they are running in one OS let alone two. We have a probably 60/40 mix of mac to windows. It used to be that we didnt have creative suite on the windows side. Once we did we found many of our students going to windows classrooms to do their projects because they "didnt like" macs. I know its more of a comfort level thing but short of final cut we have begun having conversations to remove more macs because for us patching and group policy administration is much easier and less time consuming on windows. I dont know how it will end out but as a journalism school we find ourselves moving more toward windows minus video editing.
Now they may have a pretty sweet deal with microsoft or other software vendors but licensing for 1400 mac osx licences and 1400 xp licences and their respective softwares in no way will cost less than the additional 300 machines. In essence with boot camp your paying for double the machines you actually have. And in addition to that patching will become a real pain as that I am aware of there is no way to force bootcamp to boot to one OS or the other remotely. Seems to me this will end up costion them alot more not less.
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Most instructors can barely teach the app they are running in one OS let alone two. We have a probably 60/40 mix of mac to windows. It used to be that we didnt have creative suite on the windows side. Once we did we found many of our students going to windows classrooms to do their projects because they "didnt like" macs. I know its more of a comfort level thing but short of final cut we have begun having conversations to remove more macs because for us patching and group policy administration is much easier and less time consuming on windows. I dont know how it will end out but as a journalism school we find ourselves moving more toward windows minus video editing.
Now they may have a pretty sweet deal with microsoft or other software vendors but licensing for 1400 mac osx licences and 1400 xp licences and their respective softwares in no way will cost less than the additional 300 machines. In essence with boot camp your paying for double the machines you actually have. And in addition to that patching will become a real pain as that I am aware of there is no way to force bootcamp to boot to one OS or the other remotely. Seems to me this will end up costion them alot more not less.