Mas90 in Parallels or VMWare Fusion?

My Mother is considering buying an iMac as her next computer, but she runs software called Mas90. It is an accounting program. Now, does anyone know for sure that it will work in a virtual machine such as Parallels and VMWare Fusion and will also be completely compatible for Boot Camp. Thanks!

I have Parallels 5 running on my iMac i7 with Windows 7 64bit. I set it up to use 4 out of the 8 processors, and assigned 4GB of Ram (I have 8GB total on my iMac) to the virtual machine.
I also have an older home-brew PC here with Asus AI7 Motherboard, 500GB Seagate SATA HD (x2), 3.4GHz P4 processor, ATI Radeon 4670 Video (AGP!), and 4GB RAM running Windows 7 32bit.
Comparison? There is none! iMac Running Parallels above SMOKES the AI7 Machine. I couldn't believe the difference. It is just unbelievable.
And the key thing here is on my iMac I can run OS X at the same time with NO noticeable performance degradation. I'm sending this from Safari right now, with Entourage and few other things running in the background, along with Win7 running in a different Space full screen. This is GREAT!

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    michaeld53 wrote:
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