Linux on the cloud: IBM, Novell & Red Hat
IBM claims, and I see no reason to doubt them, that its cloud customers can cut IT labor costs by 50% and reduce software defects by 30% by moving development to the cloud. In particular, by moving internal development to the cloud, companies can save money and time otherwise spent on internal development and test environments. Specifically, IBM maintains that internal development and testing setups can eat up as much as 50% of a company's IT infrastructure while remaining idle 90% of the time.
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