We do have academic pricing on individual faculty SAS FOR WINDOWS, and a site license FOR WINDOWS. The institutions allows Windows machines or Macs. Over half the staff choose Mac but the OS/machine is administered at the enterprise level (or it can't be on the network). I have a Mac laptop for research and we are familiar with SAS for statistics. To run regular SAS 9,4 etc you need Windows. To run regular Windows on a Mac you either need to dual boot, or have a VM running windows, with SAS for Windows in in that. Or you could use a VM based, platform independent based product like SAS Studio/University. It skipped the windows layer and allowed SAS with just the SAS VM/browser on your Mac. It was AWESOME. There is now a recent change that you can't run VMWare or Virtualbox locally(have enterprise rules that block the kernel extension (kext) install needed to run), hence eliminating these options, and with it the best SAS options for OSX (University/Studio). It also eliminated running Windows in a VM on your machine, with SAS on it (at least with VMWare/Virtualbox). Their solution is to have VMs running Windows at the enterprise level, configured by them, with SAS on them. This works OK, but there are fewer of them, they are harder to move files to/from due to an interface that is poor, and you must be on the internal network to use them, or deal with a very clunky way of connecting remotely. It is basically a much less functional way to do SAS on demand Academic. SAS University/Studio (when they allowed kext based VMs locally) was the perfect solution for an academic using OSX. Everything just works, files local, can use on the plane (off the network). Pull files from VM to local and vice versa easily. So hence my question of whether there were any options for non-kext based VMs for SAS Studio/University. For examples Parallels doesn't seem to use kexts, but it also doesn't run the SAS VM based products like SAS Studio/University. I can learn R, but have used SAS so long that it is much more efficient. I could also get a PC laptop, but really prefer Mac. Hence I was trying to figure out options. Thank you to all for your help. If I am missing a SAS product that achieves me goals (run SAS product local on OSX without kext based VMs) please let me know.
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