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July 1, 2008
MIRACLE LINUX COARPORATION.

MIRACLE LINUX renovates the management organization for "Second Inauguration."
- As one-of-a-kind domestic operating system vendor, MIRACLE LINUX coordinates the Open Source Community and business enterprises to nurture IT engineers -

MIRACLE LINUX Corporation (hereafter referred to as MIRACLE LINUX; Headquarters: Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Takeshi Sato) announces that it has renovated the management organization, and that Takashi Kodama has been appointed as the President and Chief Executive Officer as of the date July 1, 2008 according to the resolutions of the extraordinary stockholders meeting and succeeding board of directors' meeting held on June 30, 2008.

Mr. Kodama started his professional career at Fujitsu Limited in April 1989. After he moved to Oracle Corporation Japan in February 1993, he played active roles as a field database engineer in western and central regions in Japan, and he also worked at Oracle Corporation in the United States, where he experienced technical support for OEM manufacturers. With his abundant experience in business development accumulated during his tenure in the CEO Office at Oracle Japan from June 2003, he was the Vice President of the MIRACLE LINUX Strategic Business & Promotion. Since June in the next year when he moved to MIRACLE LINUX Corporation, he has been responsible for sales and strategic business promotion activities. He also made a major contribution to founding Asianux Corporation in December 2007, and he still holds the post of the Vice President.

Mr. Takeshi Sato, stepping down as the president, has been appointed as the post of the Chairman of the Board and he will continue to support business activities of MIRACLE LINUX under the new management organization. Mr. Hirotaka Yoshioka, stepping down as the board member and CTO, will be involved in evangelistic activities as a senior expert and also lead development of Mobile Internet Devices (MID).

In this occasion of management reshuffling, MIRACLE LINUX strives for "Second Inauguration." Under the leadership of Mr. Kodama with his rich global experience and proven track records in business as well as in technological fields, MIRACLE LINUX will expand its business in the domestic market. MIRACLE LINUX also takes advantage of its advanced and flexible technical support as a domestic operating system vendor, which will benefit the customers and partners to full extent.

MIRACLE LINUX will contribute to further dissemination of open source software by supporting business enterprises utilizing open source software, and seek to create an environment which allows IT engineers to develop himself/herself and thrive freely and vigorously.



The new Board members are below.

President & CEO: Takashi Kodama
Chairman: Takeshi Sato
Executive Vice president: Tatsuo Ito
Board member: Masato Yamamoto
(NEC Corporation Executive General Manager Computers Software Operations Unit)
Board member: Takefumi Yoshikawa
(Oracle Corporation Japan Executive Officer Head of Corporate Planning)
Auditor: Shigeru Nosaka
(Oracle Corporation Japan Chief Financial Officer)



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.

About Asianux
Asianux Corporation, established in December 2007, is invested by Asian leading Linux vendors Red Flag Co., Ltd. Of China, HAANSOFT Inc. of Korea and Miracle Linux Corporation of Japan as the joint venture company of Asianux Consortium. Asianux co-development project is a unique software business project in Asia, which is started from December 2003 and based on the concepts of '4-CO' business model, which is co-development, co-brand, co-support and co-marketing. Asianux Consortium is aim to co-develop unified Linux platform, whose members include Red Flag, Miracle, HAANSOFT and VietSoftware of Vietnam. Integrated recourse of 3 companies in terms of technology, human resource, finance, management etc, Asianux Corporation is conduct development, marketing, and distribution of Linux Operation System Software, which is involves in Server platform and Mobile device platform in Asian OSS market recently. Asianux released Asianux Server 3 as the last version of Server platform and Asianux® Mobile Midinux™ 2.0 as the last version of MID Platform.
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.


Contact person for inquiries concerning this announcement:

Kenya Ebe
Strategic Alliance and Promotion Division
MIRACLE LINUX COARPORATION
Tel: +81-3-5404-5036
E-mail: press@miraclelinux.com
http://www.miraclelinux.com/
http://www.miraclelinux.com/asianux/


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