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I thought the Chinese embraced the penguin! What about Asianux and Red Flag Linux?!? I thought the Chinese took a stand and made GNU/Linux their national distro. Come on China, harness that considerable population power to boost the kernel! Download http://www.asianux.com/ pour a cup of ginseng tea and install. I can't believe the Chinese are still stuck on Windows.

So, I guess that little high-profile dinner some time back wherein ms got assurances that windows would win in China were not to be. Seems ms is being mshafted.

They wanted pervasiveness/pervasion. Well, they have pervAsian. Yeh,

Red Flag Linux?: maybe 5 RMB

A Linux distro in most places?: what you want to pay for it

windows, maybe even Vista? PRICE-LESS

windows will be "everywhere", but it will be "priceless!", not "priceless"

A First Look at Asianux 1.0
http://lwn.net/Articles/90823/

Asianux, recent stuff (need javascript on to see the site... sheesh....)
http://www.asianux.com/asianux.do

Microsoft Fights Piracy In China, Linux Wins
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml ?articleID=170700943

Red Flag Linux (from 2004-ish)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe =UTF-8&q=red+flag+linux&btnG=Search

Korea, China, Japan start open-source collaboration (from 2004)
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,3915 0645,00.htm

Unseating a software giant
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Management-Focus/Unseat ing-a-software-giant/2005/06/13/1118514959694.html

Yes siree... ms is could have a hard time as Asia reasserts its position in the world. They are NOT going to "meekly fork over billions of dollars year after year to microsoft..."

Hmmmm...

Well, sort of. The Japanese distribution Miracle Linux is partly (50%) owned by Oracle. Miracle Linux is also a part of Asianux, which sort of looks like Windows XP, by the way.

Red Flag Linux is actualy a distribution of Asianux2.0. Red Flag (Chinese), Miracle Linux (Japanese) & Haansoft (Korean) are all built on Asianux2.0 and targeted for the specific countries listed above. AFAIK, Asianux2.0 is a RHEL clone, so that helps with testing (vs. having to test a completely new distro).

I can't speak for "IBM", but back when I was product manger for WAS Community Edition (WASCE), I know that we decided to support Red Flag Data Center (RFDC) with WASCE right from v1.0 because our Asian customers were asking for RFDC (in addition to RHEL).

Savio

Actually, no. Red Flag is a trinity member of Asianux http://www.asianux.com/about_us.php which develops (co-develops) the software these companies use.

They can use this money instead of just earmarking it for Redmond.

Exactly. They can use that money and pour it back into their locally created Asianux. See Miracle Linux, Red Flag and Haansoft jointly introduce Asianux 2.0:
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.