Imagine this: You’re running a busy enterprise and need to be conscious of expenses when equipping your workers with the technology they need. And so someone suggests netbooks to you – a less pricey alternative to a notebook or sub-notebook, and certainly cheaper than a full desktop. Such a thing would have been unheard of until recently, but now according to this fascinating article at jkOnTheRun, enterprises are pushing OEMs to produce netbooks for them.

Sales are booming and now new eyes are turning to the benefits of netbooks. If a netbook has sufficient resources for the worker and even if an extra investment is needed to increase its performance, it would still be a cheaper alternative than a laptop. Apparently, the tendency for netbooks to ship with Windows XP instead of Vista also might not deter enterprises from doing this, as many have refused to upgrade to the newer operating system.

It’ll be interesting to see if this report becomes a reality and if we see netbooks become commonplace in enterprises.