“The spring release of a new U.S.-made Chinese language
partitioning software could give the open source Linux operating
system a boost in China as it allows Windows users to load Linux
onto their computers without having to erase existing drives.”
“The software, PartitionMagic 5.0, was developed by PowerQuest,
a Utah a company which leads the worldwide market in partition
software. The company hopes to double its net revenue — US$35
million in 1998 — with the April release of the simplified Chinese
version of PartitionMagic in Shanghai and Beijing….”
“Of particular interest to Chinese users will be the ability
to run English and Chinese operating systems at the same time, or
to run Linux and Windows at the same time. As a possible
result, the software may give a boost to the mainland popularity of
Linux, the open source operating system that is slowly but steadily
challenging the current monopoly of Microsoft’s Windows operating
system in China.”