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The introduction of a new pricing system for Citrix's NetScaler applications has made it ideal for customers.

This is according to Liz McMillan of Virtualization Journal, who argued that the 'pay-as-you-grow' price structure helps businesses that are wanting to reduce their dependency on current systems, which forces clients to pay more than they may need to when looking to upgrade as they have to purchase new hardware.

She explained that the increased "flexibility" that comes with the change - which allows customers to buy only what they need in the short-term and then make further upgrades with a new software licence - makes Citrix NetScaler an "ideal complement to server virtualisation".

It enables users to "scale overall datacentre capacity in the most efficient way possible", she wrote, with director of information technology at Qualcomm Zeeshan Sabir adding that it offers "compelling new cost efficiencies" to enterprises.

Citrix's Klaus Oestermann recently suggested that the financial model will be especially attractive to businesses, given the current difficult economic climate.