Firm near release of English-language version of Red Flag Desktop 4.0 OS, according to company executive; is first non-Chinese commercial product offered by firm, will help it expand into international markets, a long-standing goal. [InfoWorld]
Last month's alliance between Hewlett-Packard and Linux developer Red Flag Software should lead to cooperation between 2 firms on technology development, marketing of Red Flag Linux to firms in China and around world. [InfoWorld]
Plans for governments and private sector firms of China, Japan, South Korea, to jointly work together to develop new OS to rival Microsoft Windows to be unveiled later this week, according to 2 Japanese newspaper reports. [InfoWorld]
Escalating its $1 billion March lawsuit against IBM, SCO says it has terminated IBM rights to distribute its AIX Unix OS, claims SCO now entitled to part of IBM total Unix revenue. [Computerworld NZ]