MIRACLE Technology Conference 2005, TOKYO, 2-MAR-2005 - - MIRACLE LINUX Corporation ( Tokyo Japan, President: Takeshi Sato. Hereafter referred to as MIRACLE LINUX), Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. ( Beijing China, Executive President: Chris Zhao. Hereafter referred to as Red Flag) and Haansoft, Inc. ( Seoul South Korea, CEO: Jong Jin Baek. Hereafter referred to as Haansoft) jointly announced today Asianux 2.0 to be generally available at the end of July 2005.

Asianux 2.0 will deliver enhanced Kernel 2.6 with dramatically improved performance, scalability and more powerful RAS functions which are required to establish enterprise and mission-critical infrastructures and easily migrate from enterprise UNIX to Linux. In addition, the graphical-user-interface (GUI), management and configuration tools have been enhanced for reducing operation and maintenance cost. In particular, OSDL (Open Source Development Labs, Inc.) Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) Requirements Definition will be implemented to improve reliability and availability.

Takeshi Sato, President of MIRACLE LINUX said that, “In Japan, Linux is being introduced in various industries including financial, manufacturing, distribution service sectors, and in governmental and public offices. We are aiming for Asianux to be the common and standard OS platform in Asia, and are developing it that enhances the various functional requirements in Japan, China and South Korea. The concept of Asianux 2.0 is to enhance the function regarding Reliability, Availability and Serviceability. We really expect that Asianux will be introduced into mission-critical systems, the scope of Linux will increase dramatically in the future. ”

Chris Zhao, Executive President of Red Flag, said, “Now, Asianux is the only one Asia local unified Linux distribution across China, Japan and South Korea. The enterprise customers can get instant and highly qualified local technical support from Red Flag, MIRACLE LINUX and Haansoft. For ISV/IHV partners, Asianux can reduce the certification and support cost greatly. They can just certify Asianux once and “Red Flag DC Server 5.0”, “MIRACLE LINUX V4.0” and “Haansoft Linux 2005” will all get certification because these products are all based on Asianux and 100% compatible. We believe Asianux will become the most important Linux distribution in Asia soon.”

Jong Jin Baek, CEO of Haansoft, said, “South Korea has a very unique market situation such that Unix is dominant platform for public sector and Windows for private sector. Haansoft will change this unusual market structure by various Linux solutions and Asianux. Asianux project, which is formed by major Linux companies from South Korea, China, and Japan, have made fast development and valuable outputs so far. Asianux will be an unprecedented collaborative model for common and standard operating system development. Haansoft will also try its best for the success of Asianux 2.0 project.”

◇Asianux 2.0 delivers the following key technical benefits :

1 Enhanced RAS (Reliability/Availability/ Serviceability)
Asianux 2.0, which is designed to work under the most demanding enterprise environments, offers high level of Reliability/Availability/ Serviceability. In particular, stability under high loads has been dramatically improved. Further, as a part of RAS enhancements,　Asianux 2.0 conforms to CGL, and most features defined in CGL2.0 priority 1 are implemented to deliver reliable support to carrier grade applications. In addition, a wide range of diagnostic tools is provided for analyzing problems.

2 Enhanced localization
Asianux 2.0 supports Japanese, Chinese simplified and traditional, Korean and English, and provides the optimum environment for using these languages. UTF8/EUC/SJIS/GB18030 locales are supported.

3 Enhanced usability
“ReFineD” is a KDE (K Desktop Environment)-based desktop environment that has been used in Red Flag’s client OS. Asianux 2.0 can enjoy the benefit of GUI-based usability delivered by ReFineD, which has been acknowledged by 1.5 million users worldwide. Moreover, a wide selection of GUI management and configuration tools is provided to meet demands of the market.

4 Supported platform
- Intel® 32bit Xeon™ processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- Intel® 64bit Xeon™ processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- Intel® Itanium®2 processor: to be released one by one
- AMD Opteron™Processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- AMD Athlon™Processor: to be released at the end of July 2005
- IBM OpenＰｏｗｅｒ™ : to be released at the end of July 2005

Asianux 2.0 will be marketed and commercialized under the brand name of each Asianux participant – “Haansoft Linux 2005 –Asianux Inside” by Haansoft in South Korea, “Red Flag DC Server 5.0 –Asianux Inside” by Red Flag in China, and “MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 – Asianux Inside” by MIRACLE LINUX in Japan. All three companies will use the “Asianux Inside” mark in their product names.