South China Morning Post: Compaq, CS&S to develop Chinese Unix for mainland | Linux Today

South China Morning Post: Compaq, CS&S to develop Chinese Unix for mainland

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 16, 1999

Thanks to Skip Collins
for this link.

“Compaq Computer will attempt to push its Tru64 version of Unix
and its Alpha server hardware in the mainland with its coming
release of a ‘Chinese Unix.’

“But the leading enterprise hardware vendor has no plans yet to
offer Linux with its workstations and servers sold in the
mainland.

“It said Cosix, a localised Unix version for the mainland, would
be co-developed by Compaq – the second-biggest Unix hardware vendor
worldwide, according to International Data Corp – and the China
National Computer Software and Technology Service Corp (CS&S),
a state-owned software developer and systems integrator under the
administration of the Ministry of Information Industry.”


Complete Story.

May require site registration. Username “cypherpu” seems to
work.

Web Webster

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