The Penguin's New Claw
Asianux has been developed to accelerate Linux adoption among enterprises and increase Linux market share in enterprise systems. The Red Flag-Miracle Linux partnership has identified three major areas of focus-the server operating environment, joint customer support, and desktop operating systems.
On January 7, 2004, two of Asia's largest Linux distributors in China and Japan forged a partnership to jointly develop low-cost, reliable and secure Linux solutions for the Asian market. Six months later, China's Red Flag Software, and Japan's Miracle Linux Corporation (jointly owned by Oracle, NEC, Otsuka-shokai and others), commercially launched Asianux, the first and only standardized Linux operating environment for organizations in Asia.
The goal for this partnership is to provide one common Linux server operating environment with highly reliable professional support services in local languages to customers entering the Chinese and Japanese markets. The secondary goal is to considerably reduce Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) efforts by certifying their products and services on one Linux platform for both Chinese and Japanese distributions.
IDC Asia/Pacific expects the Linux server and client operating systems market in China will more than double to $41.9 mn by 2008.
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