Beijing, Tokyo and Seoul, - Aug. 26, 2005 --Today, three leading Asia Linux OS vendors Red Flag Software Co., Ltd., Japanese MIRACLE LINUX Corp., and Korean Haansoft Inc., jointly announced the general availability of new generation Linux server platform - Asianux2.0. The release of Asianux2.0 reaffirmed the commitment that Asianux will continuously bring latest open source technology and high quality service to Asia enterprise customers and partners. The powerful features of Asianux2.0 make it a perfect open platform for key enterprise applications.

  Asianux2.0 is co-developed by Red Flag Software, MIRACLE LINUX and Haansoft in Beijing. Based on this common platform, local branding products, including "Red Flag DC Server 5.0", "MIRACLE LINUX V4.0" and "Haansoft Linux 2006 Server & Server 64" will be released and sold in Chinese, Japanese and Korean market. These three products are 100% identical in OS level.

  After the extremely successful Asianux1.0 was released in June of 2004, it became a major Linux distribution in Asia enterprise market quickly, because it provides excellent performance, high stability, unique management tools and powerful local technical support. Currently, more than 30,000 copies of Asianux1.0 are shipped with "Red Flag DC Server4.1", "MIRACLE LINUX V3.0" and "Haansoft Linux 2005". Asianux1.0 has already received positive support from customers and partners. Many national organizations in Asia choose Asianux to run their key applications, including China Post, Japan Waseda University, Korean National Education Information System that is huge Linux based project including 2,300 Linux servers.

  Asianux2.0 integrates the latest open source technologies and advantages. The main features include:

• Enhanced & mature 2.6 kernel, which provides exceptional performance and scalability for enterprise computing.
• Support the latest technology of Intel® 32bit Xeon™ processor, Intel® 64bit Xeon™ processor, AMD Opteron™ Processor, AMD Athlon™ Processor, IBM OpenPower™.
• Provide best support for CGL2.0. Asianux 2.0 implements all the priority one features of CGL2.0. Meet the strict requirements of high-end customers like those of telecom.
• Implement virtualization based on IBM OpenPower™.
• Enhanced LKCD, LKST, Diskdump, Netdump etc..
• Compatible with LSB3.0 and LI18N
• Improved support for the main stream servers, storages and network devices
• Professional and user-friendly management tools effectively decreasing the maintenance cost.
• Security enhancement: ACL, NX, Crypt file system, latest Security Patch, VPN, pre-configed for server environment.
• First distribution supporting EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) on both IA32 and IA64 platform in the world.

  As the base software of IT system, Asianux has gotten full support from many global companies including Adaptec, AMD, BEA, CA, Dell, EMC, Emulex, HP, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Samsung Electronics, SAP, Stratus Technologies and Symantec just to name a few. The new ISV/IHV program has attracted many partners. Hundreds certification around Asianux2.0 are in progress. By delivering excellent performance, stability, availability and scalability, Asianux2.0 is an idea platform for the key enterprise applications.

  Instant and reliable technical support is one of the key factors to push Linux adoption in enterprise market. The value and evolution of service are promoting the healthy development of Linux industry. To accelerate Asianux adoption, Red Flag Software, MIRACLE LINUX and Haansoft jointly established the largest Linux technical support network in Asia. It consists of Asia R&D and support center located in Beijing and three local support networks in China, Japan and Korea. Directly from Beijing R&D center, the Asianux team can provide in-depth technical service and instant local support.

  "Within just one year, Asianux has become one of the three major Linux server distributions. More and more solutions are based on Asianux. Based on the powerful local sales and support network, and the advanced technology of Asianux2.0, Asianux will get even more attractive," said Chris Zhao, Red Flag's President. "As a next step, we will recruit more partners to join Asianux so that we can expand Asianux market more quickly."

  "I am sincerely pleased with the completion of Asianux2.0. We expect Asianux2.0 to be widely adopted in mission-critical systems for various industries such as telecom. Asianux is ideal for such industry for its reliability, availability and serviceability features," said Takeshi Sato, MIRACLE LINUX President. "Additionally MIRACLE LINUX will offer comprehensive enterprise support to meet mission-critical users' requirements."

  Korea Haansoft CEO, Jong-Jin, Baek, states, "Asianux project is a unique successful co-project in IT department among CJK countries. The Linux market in Korea is an emerging market. We are aggressively bringing Asianux to Korea."

  Major global companies have expressed their fully support to Asianux2.0. Following are their remarks.

BEA
"BEA's products, such as WebLogic, and Tuxedo, have been supporting Linux systems for long time. Asianux is one of the top Linux Systems in Asia, and we will continue to provide strong support to it." Said Frank Xiong, BEA Vice President.

Dell
Dell Enterprise Marketing Director of APJ, Damian Crotty, states " We see Red Flag and the partnership with Japanese MIRACLE LINUX Corp and Korean Haansoft Inc as a major force in driving standards in the industry and this aligns with Dell's constant focus on driving standards to provide greater value to our customers."

EMC
Steve Fitz, President of EMC Asia Pacific/Japan, said, "Customers throughout Asia are increasingly incorporating open source technologies into their enterprise IT environments. EMC and the companies supplying Asianux are working closely to ensure the highest levels of interoperability. We expect the many new features of Asianux 2.0, combined with EMC's leading technology, will provide our mutual customers with leading information lifecycle management solutions."

Emulex
"Emulex fully supports the Asianux2.0 solution by working closely with Red Flag and its partners to seamlessly integrate Emulex Open Source Linux Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) drivers. Close collaboration with Red Flag also ensures simplified deployment of Emulex HBAs within enterprise-class Linux environments that are leveraging the benefits of storage area networks (SANs)," said Mike Smith, Emulex Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. "Emulex HBAs are trusted by leading financial, government and corporate institutions worldwide, and provide the high performance storage networking connectivity that our enterprise IT customers demand for use within robust Linux-based solutions, like Asianux2.0."

HP
HP Vice president Dr. Martin Fink mentioned in Korea that "Asianux is one of the three major Linux distributions in the world, and HP will strongly support Asianux in Asian region."

Hitachi
"Hitachi. Ltd. welcomes that Asianux 2.0 departed as an achievement of the Asian OSS activity. An open source community activity among Asian countries is now accelerating in a tremendous speed," said Kazuhiro Fujisaki, General Manager, Platform Software, Software Division, Hitachi, Ltd. "We expects that Asianux 2.0, combining with our products and technology, leads the market as an Asian standard platform and technology as well as both the adoption of Linux into enterprise systems, and the technology contribution into the OSS community."

Intel
"Intel-based servers enable businesses worldwide to operate with greater productivity at lower cost. They deliver outstanding price/performance and a broad choice across OEMs, operating systems such as Asianux2.0 and applications," said Maria Kwok, General Manager, Customer Solutions Group, Intel Asia Pacific. "Today, Intel-based servers are the platform of choice - more than 80 percent of deployed servers are Intel Architecture-based. This is because Intel is delivering server innovation beyond the CPU, extending the value and capability of server platforms and helping businesses grow."

NEC
"NEC welcomes the announcement of Asianux2.0. NEC and MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION have been working together closely to provide enterprise customers with 'MIRACLE LINUX' based on Asianux on NEC Express5800 servers. NEC expects that Asianux2.0 based on Linux 2.6 kernel with many functional enhancement for enterprise system will become a more powerful platform for our customers," said Masato Yamamoto, Executive General Manager, Computers Software Operations Unit, NEC Corporation. "We will continue to provide value-added enterprise server solution through close collaboration with MIRACLE LINUX CORPORATION."

Oracle
"Oracle is experiencing strong growth on the Linux platform across Asia Pacific. We are seeing more and more government and commercial customers adopting grid computing solutions on Oracle's technology, the Linux operating system and Intel servers," said Nick Evered, senior vice president for Technology Sales at Oracle Asia Pacific. "Asianux remains a key part of our strategy to provide the highest level of support to customers running Oracle on Linux."

SAP
SAP China alliance director, Tan Tong Ngee comments "Asianux is mature for mission critical enterprise application suites like mySAP ERP and Business Suite. It also serves as a proven computing infrastructure for customers in the East Asia market, as one of the optimal choices among other significant players. SAP will continue to support Asianux to best meet our customers needs."

Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies SVP, Prod & Sol Dev Grp, US Eng Staff, Allan L. Jennings said, "Stratus Technologies is pleased with the strong commitment to product service and support demonstrated by the Asianux 2.0 release. Asianux will address the specific language requirements of the countries in which it is sold, including China, Korea, Japan and others. This sets the Asianux operating system apart from others, and benefits companies like Stratus who are equally committed to providing advanced technical systems support to customers."

Symantec
Symantec China GM Philip Xu has mentioned that "Symantec Net Backup and Backup Exec just certified RedFlag DC server - Asianux inside, and we are looking forward to extend our cooperation with RedFlag."