MIRACLE Technology Conference 2005, TOKYO, 2-MAR-2005 - MIRACLE LINUX Corporation ( Tokyo Japan, President: Takeshi Sato. Hereafter referred to as MIRACLE LINUX), Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. ( Beijing China, Executive President: Chris Zhao. Hereafter referred to as Red Flag) and Haansoft, Inc. ( Seoul South Korea, CEO: Jong Jin Baek. Hereafter referred to as Haansoft) jointly announced today Asianux 2.0 to be generally available at the end of July 2005.
Asianux 2.0 will deliver enhanced Kernel 2.6 with dramatically improved performance, scalability and more powerful RAS functions which are required to establish enterprise and mission-critical infrastructures and easily migrate from enterprise UNIX to Linux. In addition, the graphical-user-interface (GUI), management and configuration tools have been enhanced for reducing operation and maintenance cost. In particular, OSDL (Open Source Development Labs, Inc.) Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Requirements Definition will be implemented to improve reliability and availability.
Takeshi Sato, President of MIRACLE LINUX said that, "In Japan, Linux is being introduced in various industries including financial, manufacturing, distribution service sectors, and in governmental and public offices. We are aiming for Asianux to be the common and standard OS platform in Asia, and are developing it that enhances the various functional requirements in Japan, China and South Korea. The concept of Asianux 2.0 is to enhance the function regarding Reliability, Availability and Serviceability. We really expect that Asianux will be introduced into mission-critical systems, the scope of Linux will increase dramatically in the future. "
Chris Zhao, Executive President of Red Flag, said, "Now, Asianux is the only one Asia local unified Linux distribution across China, Japan and South Korea. The enterprise customers can get instant and highly qualified local technical support from Red Flag, MIRACLE LINUX and Haansoft. For ISV/IHV partners, Asianux can reduce the certification and support cost greatly. They can just certify Asianux once and "Red Flag DC Server 5.0", "MIRACLE LINUX V4.0" and "Haansoft Linux 2005" will all get certification because these products are all based on Asianux and 100% compatible. We believe Asianux will become the most important Linux distribution in Asia soon."
Jong Jin Baek, CEO of Haansoft, said, "South Korea has a very unique market situation such that Unix is dominant platform for public sector and Windows for private sector. Haansoft will change this unusual market structure by various Linux solutions and Asianux. Asianux project, which is formed by major Linux companies from South Korea, China, and Japan, have made fast development and valuable outputs so far. Asianux will be an unprecedented collaborative model for common and standard operating system development. Haansoft will also try its best for the success of Asianux 2.0 project."
Asianux 2.0 delivers the following key technical benefits :
- Enhanced RAS (Reliability/Availability/ Serviceability)
Asianux 2.0, which is designed to work under the most demanding enterprise environments, offers high level of Reliability/Availability/ Serviceability. In particular, stability under high loads has been dramatically improved. Further, as a part of RAS enhancements,@Asianux 2.0 conforms to CGL, and most features defined in CGL2.0 priority 1 are implemented to deliver reliable support to carrier grade applications. In addition, a wide range of diagnostic tools is provided for analyzing problems.
- Enhanced localization
Asianux 2.0 supports Japanese, Chinese simplified and traditional, Korean and English, and provides the optimum environment for using these languages. UTF8/EUC/SJIS/GB18030 locales are supported.
- Enhanced usability
"ReFineD" is a KDE (K Desktop Environment)-based desktop environment that has been used in Red Flag's client OS. Asianux 2.0 can enjoy the benefit of GUI-based usability delivered by ReFineD, which has been acknowledged by 1.5 million users worldwide. Moreover, a wide selection of GUI management and configuration tools is provided to meet demands of the market.
- Supported platform
- Intel® 32bit Xeon™processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- Intel® 64bit Xeon™ processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- Intel® Itanium®2 processor: to be released one by one
- AMD Opteron™Processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- AMD Athlon™Processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- IBM OpenPower™ : to be released at the end of July 2005
Asianux 2.0 will be marketed and commercialized under the brand name of each Asianux participant - "Haansoft Linux 2005 -Asianux Inside" by Haansoft in South Korea, "Red Flag DC Server 5.0 -Asianux Inside" by Red Flag in China, and "MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 - Asianux Inside" by MIRACLE LINUX in Japan. All three companies will use the "Asianux Inside" mark in their product names.
About CGL
CGL (Carrier Grade Linux) is a Linux specification stated by OSDL (Open Source Development Labs, Inc.), a body that promotes the adoption of Linux in enterprise market, and it defines features such as availability, scalability and high-response those are required by carrier grade applications. CGL complies to recognized standards such as Linux Standard base (LSB), and its effort is closely linked with existing forums and communities such as the Service Availability Forum.
About "Asianux"
Asianux is a completely new software business project from Asia, based on the concepts of "Common", "Collaboration" and "Contribution". Asianux brings together the know-how and development staff from leading enterprises from all over Asia. They are working together to establish an Asian Linux standard, platform through developing Linux distribution that fulfils the requirements of the Asian market and requires no modifications whatsoever, wherever it is shipped.
About Haansoft,Inc.
Haansoft has developed an independent word-processor 'Hangul', which is optimally suited for work in the Korean language environment. 'Hangul' has obtained 70% of the entire Korean word processing software market since its introduction in 1990. "Hangul" has become a virtual household name synonymous with "Korean word processing software". Haansoft is working to create the dawn of a new era in the world of word-processing with the high-quality content and cutting-edge technology of the 'Hangul' software. 'Hangul' demonstrates outstanding capability in character processing. Therefore, it has been easily reengineered into multilingual (Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese) word-processing software. For these reasons, 'Hangul' has been showered with rave international reviews from end-users to product reviewers. 'Wen-jie', the Chinese version of 'Hangul', and 'Hangul Millennium', the Japanese version, are recognized in both China and Japan for their excellent features.
Haansoft is developing variety Linux solutions, such as Haansoft Linux OS, Hangul for Linux, Thinkfree Office as an office suite for Linux, Workdesk as a groupware, mass mail system, and others. As a Linux leading company in South Korea, Haansoft has partnership with other Linux companies and global solution venders, and co-operation with Linux communities, universities, and research institutes to promote Linux.
About Red Flag Software Co., Ltd.
Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. was founded in June 2000. It focuses on the development and marketing of Linux operating systems and application software on multiple platforms for the constantly growing base of Chinese technology users. Red Flag's Linux solutions include the Red Flag Linux Desktop, low-to-high end Red Flag Linux Server, Red Flag Embedded Linux OS, Security Server plus industry solutions based on the Red Flag platform. Red Flag is the leader in offering a combination of free software and unparalleled technical expertise among Chinese users. It is Oracle's Linux partner in China. Red Flag and Oracle jointly developed and delivered Red Flag DC Server 4.0 Operating System in June 2003. Chinese customers such as China Post and Xiaolanzhen Town have adopted it. To learn more about Red Flag, please visit www.redflag-linux.com
About MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION
Open for business since June 1, 2000, as a dedicated provider of Linux server OS-related products and services, MIRACLE LINUX carries out a variety of projects, focusing on the development and sale of the Linux server operating system, "MIRACLE LINUX"; the multi-platform secure OS software, "MIRACLE HiZARD"; and provision of Linux-related support services including consulting, education and maintenance. "MIRACLE LINUX V3.0 - Asianux Inside" is designated as Oracle USA's Unbreakable Linux platform. For more information about MIRACLE LINUX, please visit our website at www.miraclelinux.com
