Asianux Corporation will conduct development, marketing, and distribution of Linux Operation System Software, which is involves in Server platform and Mobile device platform recently, and further desktop platform in Asian OSS market. Asianux Corporation integrated recourse of 3 companies in terms of technology, human resource, finance, management etc. As a result, Asianux Corporation will concentrate complementary competitive advantages from 3 companies. Therefore speed the development; guarantee Asianux could make quick decision and response; provide more efficient service to clients. In addition, as the entity of Asianux Consortium, we provide more ideal platform for Asianux Consortium to cooperate with global partners.
Wuxi is the new emerging city in IT especially Software industry. Wuxi government is regarding Software as one of the pillar industries and striving to promote it. The revenue of Software industry of 2006 is over 10 billion, and 25 times as it in 2000. With the support of positive policy from government and great development environment, more and more Chinese and International companies settle in Wuxi Software Park.
Outline of the Asianux Corporation
| Company name: |
Asianux Corporation |
| Headquarters |
Wuxi, Jiangsu, P.R. China |
| Date of establishment: |
20 December 2007 |
| Business: |
Develop Linux Operating System
Provide Professional Service and Support of Linux and OSS product
Global Marketing and Sales
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| Capital: |
1.35M USD |
| Employees: |
Approx. 50 in next 6 month |
| Management structure: |
Chairman of Board and President: Jia Dong
Vice Chairman of Board: J.J Beak
Vice Chairman of Board: Takeshi Sato
Vice President: Daniel Cho
Vice President: Takashi Kodama
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Mr. Weijian Jiang, Secretary-General of ChongAn district of Wuxi city comments: forming Asianux is a great achievement of the strategic alliance based on three research & development Linux leading companies. We appreciate the trust and strategic investment from three companies in ChongAn district. We are sure ChongAn's scientific industry development will definitely to-ahead to a new stage. As well as we serious commit to carry on providing efficient and quality service, to create a healthy environment for the enterprises' strengthen and development. We sincerely wish Asianux Co.,Ltd would happily grow here. Look forward to seeing it go toward the world standing up Asia.
Investors (Asianux Founding Members)
Mr. Dong Jia, CEO of Asianux Co.,Ltd state : Asianux formally establishes based on Asianux consortium. It has been supported by City and District government greatly in WuXi. Asianux has a powerful fundament in terms of technology and market and is invested by threes powerful Linux corporations. By integrated the resource of three companies, we believe that Asianux entity will surely enhance the force in terms of the consortium's development, marketing & service. Therefore, Asianux will continuous developing and expanding and provide quality and value of the open platform to enterprises, public and individual users.
Miracle Linux President Takeshi Sato said, Asianux Corporation is very unique company jointly established by CJK(China,Japan and Korea) companies target Asia-Pacific and World Wide open source market. Three companies has been succeed to co-develop Asianux over three years and expanding the collaboration from Server to Mobile market. The Asianux Corporation allows us to reinforce a relationship with global IHVs and ISVs. They will widely provide certified hardware and software that run on Asianux in market. Three companies will enter in one company and our union power increases further, and we will provide superior products with reliability, availability and serviceability are enhanced further to the market more than before. According to do it, we will support users' entire requirement from SMB to mission-critical market. I believe that Asianux success equals to MIRACLE LINUX success, and vice versa."
"Asianux Corporation will be a world-wide company for Linux business. Haansoft and other Asianux Consortium companies will concentrate their strength for 4C alliance; Co-development, Co-brand, Co-marketing, Co-support" said Jong-Jin Baek, CEO of Haansoft Inc. And said "You may expect Asianux Corporation will be a world-wide linux distribution company."
"We congratulate RedFlag, Miracle Linux and Haansoft on forming the Asianux Corporation", said Ram Peddibhotla, Director of Open Source Technology Center at Intel. "We've been working closely with each of these companies in enabling Intel(r) technologies such as Multi-Core, LessWatts.org project and Virtualization to provide customers a reliable, energy efficient computing experience. Now with Asianux, we look forward to the continuing collaboration and creating new computing opportunities across a spectrum of platforms - from Mobile Internet Devices to Intel's multi-core processor based server platforms"
About Asianux
The Asianux co-development project began in December 2003. Asianux will releases the third major version of their flagship OS, Asianux Server 3, in September 2007. Red Flag of China, Miracle Linux of Japan, Haansoft of Korea and VietSoftware of Vietnam each develop and sell an identical product with the Asianux brand in their respective home counties. Asianux is a unique software business project in Asia, which is based on the concepts of "Common", "Collaboration" and "Contribution". Asianux brings together the best development staff and know-how from leading enterprises from all over Asia to work together to establish a Linux standard for the Asian market.
About Asianux Consortium members
Red Flag Software Co., Ltd.
Since its founding on June 2000, Red Flag Software is growing rapidly and firmly to be the largest Linux company in Asia with more than 150 employees. Under headquarter located in Beijing, there are two subsidiaries in Guangzhou and Shanghai, and well-established sales channels and service networks are deployed nationwide. The product line includes high-end Linux server OS, cluster system, desktop OS, embedded system, technical support services and trainings. Red Flag Linux has been adopted by plenty of industries, including government, China post, education, telecommunication, finance, insurance, transport, power, logistics, media, manufacture, etc.
MIRACLE LINUX COARPORATION.
Miracle Linux Co. is a dedicated Linux distributor for server Operating System (OS) market in Japan, and since its foundation in June 2000 it has been an integral part in promoting Linux for Japanese enterprise users. Through its product, also named as MIRACLE LINUX, it has empowered Linux not only a cost-effective OS but also as an enabler to drive business forward. Adopting "Customer First" as its slogan, Miracle Linux offers a rich variety of support and service, from system consultation to end-user support, in order to satisfy even the most demanding requirements from customers. In particular, its specialty in kernel hacking and localization is highly regarded among the industry. Also, Miracle Linux is an enthusiastic admirer of Open Source Software (OSS) and it has been actively participated in a numerous OSS projects run by Japan Information-Technology Promotion Agency (IPA) and other OSS communities.
Haansoft,Inc.
Recognized as a national icon in Korea, Haansoft is the leading software vendor in Korea represented by its overwhelming success in the word processor market. Since its inception in 1990, over 10 million copies of Hangul word processor has been sold. Moreover, with the development of Hancom Office in 2004, it has been nibbling at Microsoft's dominance in the local Office Suite market.
Haansoft is the first listed company on KOSDAQ. On the Linux front, Haansoft has developed a variety of Linux solutions, such as Asianux, Office suites for Linux (Hancom office for domestic market and Thinkfree Office for world wide market), and Workdesk as a groupware. As a leading Linux company in Korea, Haansoft has 90% market share in public sector. Currently Haansoft will try to expand the business items with variety open source software.
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