IBM WebSphere to Support Red Flag Linux platform

IBM WebSphere to Support Red Flag Linux platform 

March 3, 2004, Beijing -- IBM and Red Flag, the leading Linux vendor in
China, announced today that IBM's WebSphere will provide product support for
Red Flag Linux. 

WebSphere support for Red Flag is expected to increase the adoption of Linux
operating system and Linux growth in the China market. WebSphere will
support Red Flag's high end server platform, Linux Advanced Server 4.0, and
will offer technical support to its users. 

According to a report by IDC Asia/Pacific, WebSphere is the number one
application server in Asia Pacific.*

WebSphere is the latest IBM software brand to support the Red Flag Linux
platform, following close on the heels of a similar announcement in
September 2003 for IBM's DB2 Universal Database -- Express, IBM's database
software targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses. 

"IBM is happy to be working with Red Flag, China's leading vendor of Linux.
We will be able to take advantage of leading technologies of both companies
for better e-business solutions for our customers", said Dan Powers, vice
president, WebSphere Software, IBM Software Group, Asia-Pacific. 

Zhao Xiaoliang, deputy president of Red Flag, said, "Customers want more
usability, reliability, stability and flexibility in Linux solutions. It is
a reflection of market demand in an e-business era. We will satisfy such
demand by working with IBM which is the worldwide leader of middleware
software. We believe that this cooperation will deliver a booming domestic
market for Linux based applications."

As the leader of middleware software, IBM encourages and promotes open
standard based solutions. IBM WebSphere solutions for Linux are used
extensively cross industries and has become the infrastructure of high end
applications on Linux.
About IBM's WebSphere Software 
WebSphere is the market-leading Internet infrastructure software, or
middleware, for creating, running and integrating e-business applications
across a variety of computing platforms. Built on open standards such as
Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), XML and the new Web services standards,
and endowed with IBM's core strengths of reliability, scalability and
security, WebSphere server software and development tools are used by tens
of thousands of customers as well as more than 9,000 independent software
vendors (ISVs) and two million developers around the world. According to
Gartner Dataquest, WebSphere led in all the major middleware market segments
in 2002. In Asia Pacific, according to IDC, WebSphere led in the application
server software platform market as well as the integration server software
platform market in Asia Pacific in 2002. For more information visit
www.ibm.com/websphere <http://www.ibm.com/websphere>. 
* IDC Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) Application Deployment Platform
Forecast, 2002 - 2006

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