Three leading Asia Linux OS vendors - Red Flag Software Co., Ltd., Japanese MIRACLE LINUX Corp., and Korean Haansoft Inc. - have 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 will be released and sold in Chinese, Japanese and Korean markets.

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.

Asianux2.0 integrates the latest open source technologies and advantages, including:

• Enhanced & mature 2.6 kernel, which provides exceptional performance and scalability for enterprise computing
• Supports 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.
• Implements 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 enhancements: ACL, NX, Crypt file system, latest Security Patch, VPN, pre-configed for server environment.
• First distribution in the world supporting EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) on both IA32 and IA64 platform.

As the base software of IT system, Asianux has gotten full support from many global partners 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.

"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.

Korea Haansoft CEO, Jong-Jin, Baek, stated: "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."

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