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mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>Legard, David. “Open-source software alliance formed in China.” IDG News Service (11 Ag 2004). < href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/11/HNopensourcechina_1.html%3E"> style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;text-decoration: none;text-underline:none'>http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/11/HNopensourcechina_1.html> mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>Alliance with IBM, HP, and others aims to promote open-source development and application in China mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>A number of Chinese software companies have joined forces with overseas vendors such as IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp, and Novell Inc. to form the China Open Source Software Promotion Alliance, China's first open-source software organization, several Chinese media reported Wednesday. mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>China Economic Net said the alliance, which includes China's leading Linux vendor Red Flag Software Co. Ltd., marked a new stage in the promotion of open-source software in China and across northeast Asia. mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>The aims of the alliance include cooperative Linux development, promotion of open-source development and application in China, driving exchanges and cooperation of open-source communities in northeast Asia, and making contributions to the international open-source community, China Economic Net said. mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>Red Flag is one of the driving forces behind Asianux, a version of Linux that has been developed as a standardized distribution for enterprise customers in Asia. A 64-bit version of Asianux designed for Intel Corp.'s Itanium II processor is scheduled to be released later this month. mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>An English-language version of Red Flag's own Linux Desktop 4.1 is due to be released during the third quarter of this year. mso-fareast-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;font-weight:normal'>The other Chinese firms involved in the alliance were named in the media as Beijing Co-Create Open Source, Zhongbiao Software, Wuxi Evermore Software, Kingsoft, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000.