Purchasing iMac very soon... can I....?

I am looking to purchase a 24" iMac very soon, but before I wanted to know if it was possible to do certain things. Please keep in mind this would be my first mac purchase, and have limited knowledge. I currently work from home doing Consulting for a a company that produces quality management software. I am wanting to know if I would be able to load this same software on a Mac?? I am not technically advanced, but I think the software runs off or or with SQL. Can one use SQL with a Mac? I will be keeping my old PC based laptop which I run off right now, but it would be nice to know if I could run the software on a larger scree. Thanks in advanced.

If it is Windows specific software, whether it uses SQL or not, it will not run under Mac OS X.
However, you can install Windows on a separate partition using Boot Camp and restart the Mac as if it was a standard PC (only cooler looking). You can, of course, restart back into Mac OS X. Boot Camp is included with the Mac, but you have to supply the a retail copy of Windows XP SP2 or later.
Or, you can use one of the +virtual machine+ programs to run Windows under Mac OS X. So you can use Windows programs at same time as Mac OS X. The two most popular programs are VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop. Again, you must provide your own copy of Windows, but these programs can work with earlier versions of Windows. You can even run Linux and Sun Solaris. I use VMware Fusion.

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