Big Blue, the ladder behind Microsoft’s success, is now taking aim to put up a fight against Microsoft with it’s industry colleagues such as Google and Apple.
IBM is now offering enterprise customers Linux-based terminals without hard drives that are "Microsoft-free."
Wow that’s something to worry about Steve!
These would be thin client’s with no hard drives but preconfigured with IBM office suites and applications. based on Linux.The price for these Virtual Linux Desktop’s would range from $59 to $289 per user; this would eventually save around $500 to $800 a year per user, for enterprises.
What do you think, will IBM be successful in it’s venture?
On one hand enterprise companies (with the economic crisis especially) will be leaning to the cheapest solution.
On the other hand if a company operates on software that runs on windows, they won’t be moving over.
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