The paper quotes IBM figures for the Virtual Linux Desktop as costing US$59 to US$289 per user, which IBM believes will have a significant influence on sales.
"Deploying your technology this way is going to save you something more than 50 per cent of your total costs," Jeff Smith, IBM's vice president for open source and Linux, told The Wall Street Journal.
"As customers face an increasingly challenging economic situation, they are looking at everything they are spending money on."
According to the article, the Virtual Linux Desktop is available now.
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