Asianux Corporationを、中国・江蘇省無錫市に設立

中国・無錫市（2007年12月20日） - Asianuxコンソーシアムのメンバーであるミラクル・リナックス株式会社(本社：東京都港区東新橋、代表取締役社長 佐藤 武、以下ミラクル・リナックス)、レッドフラグ・ソフトウェア（Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. : 北京 Jia Dong, 社長兼CEO、以下レッドフラグ）、ハーンソフト (Haansoft, Inc. : ソウル Jong-Jin,Baek, 社長兼CEO、以下ハーンソフト)は、Asianuxコンソーシアムの合弁会社、Asianux Corporation（中国・江蘇省無錫市）を設立したことを正式に発表しました。

Asianux Corporationの設立は、「4-CO（4つの共同）」という共同ビジネスモデルコンセプトと、3社の4年以上にわたる緊密な協力関係を土台として実現したものです。

Asianux Corporationでは、アジアのOSS（オープンソース・ソフトウェア）市場において、サーバー・プラットフォームや、最近ではモバイル機器プラットフォーム、さらにデスクトップ・プラットフォームに搭載されるLinuxオペレーティングシステム・ソフトウェアの開発、マーケティング、販売事業を展開します。Asianux Corporationの技術、人材、財政、経営などは3社が共同で運営し、各社の長所を補完的に取り入れて高い競争力を発揮します。これにより開発期間が短縮するほか、意思決定と対応が確実に迅速化し、より効果的なサービスをお客様に提供できるようになります。さらにAsianuxコンソーシアムの一員として、コンソーシアムが世界の各パートナーと協力していく上で、より理想的なプラットフォームを提供していきます。

無錫市は、近年IT産業、とくにソフトウェア産業の発展が目覚しい都市です。同市はソフトウェアを注力産業のひとつに掲げ、積極的に取り組んでいます。2006年のソフトウェア産業の売上げ規模は100億ドルを超え、2000年時点の25倍の数値を達成しました。自治体の積極的な政策支援と恵まれた開発環境により、無錫ソフトウェアパークに進出する日本および韓国の企業が増加しています。

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Wuxi Government
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.

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."

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.

J.J. Baek President & CEO of Haansoft in Korea said "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."

INTEL
"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"