China's Red Flag Joins Unbreakable Linux

Subject: [Vnbiz] China's Red Flag Joins Unbreakable Linux
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:48:12 -0400
From: "Phan, Tai" <Tai.Phan@ed.gov>
To: vnbiz@vietlinks.net

[ Vietnam Business Forum ]

May 7, 2003

By Thor Olavsrud The booming Chinese market for Linux
solutions witnessed the birth of another alliance Wednesday,
as home-grown market leader Red Flag Software joined
Oracle's Unbreakable Linux program through the company's
Oracle China subsidiary.

The alliance means that Oracle has now brought two of
China's largest Linux distributors -- Turbolinux (through
the UnitedLinux consortium) and Red Flag -- into its fold,
where it hopes to crack what is shaping up to be one of
Linux's strongest worldwide markets.

Spurred by the Chinese government's strong endorsement of
the platform, Linux has been growing by leaps and bounds in
the country. The Evans Data "2002 Chinese Developer Survey,
Vol. 2," released last November, found that 65 percent of
Chinese developers expected to write a Linux application
this year and 44 percent said they had already written at
least one. Additionally, the research found that intentions
to use Linux as a primary host operating system this year
were expected to leap by 175 percent.

"The establishment of our alliance comes at no better time
than this -- Linux is being adopted at a fast pace in China
and enterprise-class products are mature and ready," said
Liu Bo, president and chief executive officer of Red Flag.
"So it is a big milestone not only in the history of Red
Flag and Oracle, but also in the history of Linux
development in China."

The alliance will provide customers of Red Flag's Linux
platform the ability to deploy Oracle Unbreakable
infrastructure with full technical support from Oracle.
Oracle said the two partners have already completed
certification of Oracle9i Database on Red Flag's
distribution, and are now pursuing certification of the rest
of Oracle's product line on the new Red Flag Data Center
Linux operating system, including Oracle9i Application
Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite and Oracle E-business
Suite.

The alliance also covers a joint support lab which the two
partners -- under the aegis of Oracle Software Research and
Development Center (Beijing) Co. and Red Flag -- plan to
open in Beijing in "the near future." The support lab is
intended to provide customers with "fast and integrated
engineering support," and is expected to play a critical
role in the two partners' product development,
certification, R&D and support.

They have also identified their key target markets, which
they said include government, transportation, utility and
energy. They said they are planning sales and marketing
campaigns to secure those markets, and have already begun to
recruit application providers to round out their offerings.

"The strategic partnership between Oracle and Red Flag for
the China market underscores Oracle's strong commitment to
helping China's software industry to grow," said Andrew Hu,
managing director of Oracle China. "The Chinese government
is encouraging organizations and enterprises to adopt Linux
because of its cost effectiveness and superior performance.
Our goal is to work with Red Flag and local application
providers to come up with world-class Linux products,
applications and services that fit the needs of customers in
China.

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