Electronic Arts saved 35 percent on the cost of the computer servers it uses to host its online gaming site when it replaced 2,000 machines with 800 new ones that run on Linux.
With fewer than half the pieces of hardware to manage, the company also cut the cost of maintaining the site by more than 50 percent.
That allowed it to cut the monthly fee it charges users of the site to about half what its rivals charge, West said.
