IBM has announced its ‘Open Client Offering’ software, which it says will reduce the costs of supporting multiple platforms in business and education, Playfuls.com reports.
A result of an IBM-Red Hat-Novell partnership, the software can run Windows, Linux or Mac software on desktop PCs, employing the same underlying software code. IBM claims that, “in big organizations, a large, double-digit percentage of users don’t require Windows Office suite licenses, meaning they can save a lot of money.” More …