Using Windows based software on a MAC: Parallel Desktop or Boot Camp

Why would a third party propriety Database Base (Royalty Data Vault, by Orlando Products.com) work in the Windows OS on a MAC using Boot Camp, but not be able to OPEN in a Windows VM using Parallel Desktop?
MacPro   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Parallel Desktop vs BootCamp

So you said that it works on bootcamp but not on Parralels. This is because Boot camp works directly through your apple hardware, whereas parallels works through an Emulation environment. The company that produced Paralells si coming out with a new Version of Parallels that is in a BETA version currently. It will actually let you Run Parralells from your Bootcamp Partition, without installing the OS twice. It is also supposed to fix some minor bugs, and supply it with a little more compatibility.
But you have to remember that BootCamp is still a BETA software, and that Parallels doesn't take advantage of your mac's hardware directly, so currently you could be having problems on both. I would buy both programs when each are fully UN-Beta this spring.
As for getting your problem solved now, you can't be promised anything, simply becaus of the above reasons. But good luck. And so you know you can install the BETA version of Parallels if you want to try it and see how it works.
Hope this helped.

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