01/05/00

 

XLinux Inc. Company Profile(Previously named Taiwan Wahoo Inc.) 

1.Executive Summary

Taiwan Wahoo international joint-stock company Ltd. (Wahoo, abbreviated as” Taiwan Wahoo Co. “below) is established in August 1998; the business of the company is focused on the research and design and the sale for the Chinese Linux installation package.

The difficulty in all the operation systems is just the language. Owing to windows 95, windows NT, Mac OS, UNIX, etc. using the language of English, the software systems are not popular in a non-English country; Although Linux is a free software, it is also faced on this problem. However, It is pitiful that manufacturers almost regard Linux as a merchandise, because of their ”near sights “, to sell; so they always use the solution of “additional application, which makes the developing manufacturers take pains more and more and is influenced on its stability and efficiency. Furthermore, each AP in the future will need a lot of manual labor to patch.

For the sake of this, Taiwan Wahoo enters the Linux market from the special cut-in point to develop on a focus and complete power Linux 1.0, which is the key to the question of all kinds of Languages through the ultra-letters link of GCS. Besides, based on the benefit of market, Wahoo has been in lead in the market for more than l year, so the dominant position exists with the universal rate of Power Linux 1.0, the corporation between AP manufacturers, the development of embedded system, etc.

Based on the predict, the potential choice and purchase only for the potential server in the main areas of china (Taiwan, mainland, and Hong Kong) is more than 500,000 packs in the market each year. For the information offered by Information Plan Association in 1997, the market for the embedded software is near 417 hundred million. If the development of PC and Internet is flourishing, the said market will grow fast.

Taiwan Wahoo Cc. Depended on the predict of the market’s future, formulates the definite core technique and the way of the research and design of a product, and the developing foundation is in the Taiwan market and even expands into Mainland, south Korea, and the global market, which is for the purpose of the following investment of core technique, the global sale fee of new product, and the international image. Taiwan Wahoo has a plan to make its general company established in U.S.A and move its global sale center to R.S.A to make use of the beneficial sale network in America. So Taiwan Wahoo has register as XLinux Inc., in America (abbreviated as “XLinux” below), to precede the collection of cash, and has introduced the established and invested companies and the tactful investors;

In summary, our features list in Taiwan as below:

  1. Taiwan Wahoo controls the technique of Chinese Linux and corporate the companies manufacturing the server, such as Acer, Compaq .IBM, and HP, which can meet the demand on the server in the market.

  1. Taiwan Wahoo depends on the technique of complex Chinese system to develop the technique of global ultra-letters collation of GCS and control the Power Linux 1.0 technique; besides, it can make a corporation with AP manufacturers from different countries to develop the application software required by the local language and can fully save the time of software development and can free from the invasion of English culture.

 

 

  1. Taiwan Wahoo, using the embedded power Linux(previous name of XLinux) technique showed by Intel, will offer the cheap and stable operation system to the manufacturers producing PDA, household electrical appliances, and medical equipment. If will corporate with the CPU manufacturer, such as Intel, to offer the embedded Linux CPU manufacturer, such as Intel, to offer the embedded Linux CPU in the future.

 

2.Company History

.Company Summary

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1998/9 Taiwan Wahoo International Enterprise Co., Ltd established, capital NT$ 30 million.

1999/4 PowerLinux 0.9 created, Red-Hat Chinese edition, easy installation interface, automatic setup genie etc.

1999/6 Taiwan Wahoo International Enterprise Co., Ltd increases capital to NT$ 120 million.

1999/7 Starting to develop multinational editions of PowerLinux, in order to solve the problem of operating platform.

1999/9 Launch of GCS (Giga Character Set), completed PowerLinux1.0 Beta, technically this system is better than Unicode; it can solve the problem of the Multilanguage platforms. It also can support on line the selection of many languages.

1999/9 PowerLinux1.0 IBM, Acer, Compaq support to PowerLinux1.0

1999/9 Intel Headquarter demonstration of installs 2M Flash Rom inside that are including Linux Kernel, Graphic Interface, and AP software. Started with big hardware manufacture produce embedded product and sell it to the whole world.

1999/9 Set up Branch Company in China.

1999/9 Set up headquarters in Silicon Valley, USA.



3 XLinux-The most powerful multi-language support Linux platform

Being an operating system, the most important point is the following:

1.Installation Interface: Determines whether users can easily install the system.

2.Administration Tools: Programs that we can use to administrate the Linux system.

3.Applications: The more applications and OS have, the more popular it is.

Although the main Linux distributions provide these three functions, they still have a common problem—Internationalization. All of them support languages like English... however, it’s difficult to sell their products in non-English countries. Some companies developed their localized distributions by language input plugging and lots of patches to the existing software.

The above approach will lead to more and more efforts on producing software patches, However, it never solves the real problem since the system still does not support multi-byte characters, standard input methods for other languages. Lots of plugging is needed. As a consequence, the performance of the system will slow down.



4. Recommendation from Partners

From my observations I have reached the conclusion that Wahoo offers the best technical support of Chinese Linux.

Intel Microelectronics Asia Ltd Taiwan Branch ---Eric Jao, Asia Pacific Marketing Product Manager

Compaq & Wahoo have now officially produced a Chinese Linux bundle package. http://www.pchome.com.tw/news/880804/19990804-1.html

Compaq Computer Taiwan Limited---Rosemary W. Ho, Managing Director

Wahoo’s GCS, Linux global version technology, will save the software industry a lot of money.

Oracle Taiwan Incorporation---Y.C. Lee, Ex-managing Director

Wahoo is the only choice we chose for Linux cooperation.

Taiwan Informix Incorporation---Roland Chen, Channel/marketing Director

IBM will completely support Wahoo Company with Linux technology in combination with any Linux business activity.

IBM Taiwan Corporation---Paul Hsu, Taiwan PSG executive

We support Wahoo’s Chinese version of Linux, as Taiwan’s leading standard version of Linux, we have decided to fully cooperate with Wahoo.

Acer Taiwan --- Zen Hwa Lin, Marketing Manager

We are interested in cooperating with Wahoo in order to use mini Chinese Linux to operate set-top box.

Shenzen Jung Jiao Technology, China ---General Manager

We are interested in cooperating with Wahoo in order to use mini Chinese Linux to develop any embedded feature.

Beijing Din Axing Company, China --- General Manager Suen

We are interested in cooperating with Wahoo for their Borg Linux fax server.

Shanghai Post office, China---Manager Lee Gen Jun





5. Marketing Alliance and Promotion:

(1) Inco.Com bundles Power Linux and user guide with its magazine in June issue.

http://www.hot.net.tw/adver/Linux/linux-3.htm

(2) The first Linux seminar held at Taiwan University in June 4th.

http://www.hot.net.tw/adver/Linux/linux.htm

(3) LinuxFab (http://linuxfab.cx), the leading Linux news web site for in Taiwan reports:

(A) Wahoo is the first developer and provider of Open Source Software in Taiwan. (Dated June 4, 1999)

http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php3? NEWSID=476

  1. Conference in Taiwan University

http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php3? NEWSID=477  

(C) Wahoo insists on supporting the principal of Open Source Software

to promote the Linux market in Taiwan.

http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php3? NEWSID=561

The article PCHome magazine reported in June 16 that Wahoo keeps the spirit of Open Source Software by (such as technical support, training courses, etc.) making its own profit from extra value-added services instead of selling the software itself. 

(4) Activity in Academia Sinica

http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/~osw99/

Presenting the Brog Linux System and Chinese Linux easy-install system Academia Sinica Taiwan.

  1. Wahoo International has years of experience in developing business-used software. There were thousands of records of downloads from the Borg business web site just after the Brog System was released.

http://borg.wahoo.com.tw

Borg Voice-mail/Fax/E-mail system was developed based on Linux system and designed for the use age of integration of various office, information such as e-mail, fax, voice-mail and etc.

(6) PC Home, the famous electric newspaper, also reports Wahoo’s activities

 http://www.pchome.com.tw/news/880616/19990616-4.html

(7) China times, reports Wahoo’s news.

 http://210.71.221.245/scripts/chinatimes/iscstext.exe?DB=

(8) Wahoo has practical experiences in developing software.

http://www.wahoo.com.tw

(9) 2300 News Web Site also reports Wahoo’s activity.

http://www.2300.com.tw/prog/details.asp? Class=1&id=6841

(10) InfoPro reports that Oracle (Taiwan) will release a Database version

for Linux.

http://infopro.infopro.com.tw/cgi-in/inf/content.pl? IF354&n&354035.n

(11) University Linux Seminar will hold in July 12.

http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php3? NEWSID=681

KALUG and Wahoo offer an in Kaohsiung Technical Institute

(12) PC HOME reports:

Wahoo International will hold the very first Linux professional training

course in Taiwan in July 20, 1999. The fundamental track includes:

Power Linux Installation, The Alphabet of UNIX System, x windows, Shell

Basic and more. The advanced track includes: The management of UNIX

System Directory and packages, Network Administration, SHELL SCRIPT

and more.

(13) LinuxFab also covers this story of the first Linux curriculum track in

Taiwan held by Wahoo International.

http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php3? NEWSID=686

(14) Conference: “The Integral Application for Power Linux”

http://linuxfab.cx/indexNewsData.php3? NEWSID=756

In order to gather more international hardware/software manufactures’ supports and anatomizing the scheme for enterprise usage, InfoPro invited most global-oriented enterprises, such as Wahoo International, IBM in Taiwan, Oracle etc. to hold a conference at Taiwan University on August 17th.

(15) http://www.pchome.com.tw/news/880804/19990804-1.html

Wahoo International, which is the most progressive Linux supporter

in Taiwan, invited and encouraged system providers/developers in Taiwan

to make the way for Linux-based server and also held a conference at

Grand Hyatt Hotel, Taiwan.


(16) InfoPro, the leading Taiwan’s information media, reports:

http://www.infopro.com.tw/index.html

(17) Wahoo’s Power Linux System grants its favor for most Chinese

Linux, which fully supports the Open Source’s spirit, grew rapidly as

200% annual growth rate and gaining its experience and maturity, Linux

looks as it if will become a mainstay enterprise operating

system. With Chinese-based interface, Power Linux soon will taken out of

the equation of the Linux market.

(18) PC HOME Electric Newspaper

http://www.pchome.com.tw/news/880804/19990804-1.html

It can be foresee that the server-grade machine supporting the

Linux system will launch into the market rapidly. Wahoo, developing its

own product with the brand name of “Power Linux”, cooperates with many

system providers to promote the server machine using Chinese-based Linux

as their operating system.

(19) Reported from ERANET in August 5, 1999

http://tech.eranet.net/eranews/0805/Linux.asp

Report says Linux’s growth far outpaced all other client and server operating systems in 1999 and prompts COMPAQ to get into this market.

(20) 2300 News Web also reports:

COMPAQ announces today to align with Wahoo International to support their server machine using Wahoo’s Power Linux operating system.

http://www.2300.com.tw/prog/details.asp? Class=1&id=7489

(21) Nation center for high-performance computing invites Wahoo to hold a technical seminar together.

http://www.powerlinux.com.tw/plxA11000.html

 

 

 


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