Userful (Calgary, Canada) is presenting its planned deployment of over 300,000 workstations in Brazilian schools as an economical and sustainable way to expand educational computing. Userful claims that it can turn one PC into up to ten student workstations for as little as $50 per seat with these benefits:

"Savings of 60% in up-front costs, 80% in annual power savings and additional savings in ongoing administration and support costs . . . This deployment alone saves more than 170,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually, the same as taking 28,000 cars off the road, or planting 41,000 acres of trees . . .Turning 1 computer into 10 reduces computer hardware waste “e-waste” by up to 80%."

Userful's Multiplier desktop virtualization software is Linux-based.