(Hong Kong - June 28, 2004) - ShaoLin Microsystems Ltd, the leading
Linux infrastructure and storage solutions provider and ABAS Business
Solutions, the leading ERP and eBusiness software provider announced a
global strategic alliance partnership today. ABAS and ShaoLin will
joinly market ABAS ERP software based-on ShaoLin's enterprise Linux
infrastructure solutions.
With the first network management, high availability and disaster
recovery feature offering to ABAS software, ShaoLin is setting the
standards of high availability and data protection for ERP software with
ShaoLin Aptus, ShaoLin HA Cluster and ShaoLin Volume Replicator. Through
this alliance, ShaoLin and ABAS will collaborate on the engineering,
marketing, and selling of targeted product offerings to provide enhanced
business solutions for customers requiring operational resilience.
'We are pleased to form strategic alliances with leading software
companies such as ABAS in order to maximize the power and value of our
clients' said ShaoLin Microsystems Chairman and CEO Mr. David Chow. 'ERP
is a must enterprise software for any e-businesses nowadays, ultimatlely
it should be on everything desktop of every department. The question of
choosing a platform to run the application is equipvalent to choosing a
platform to standardize the enterprise network infrastructure. Running
the ERP client software on a 'Fit Client' infrastructure with ShaoLin
Aptus can enhance the overall manageability and security of the
enterprise infrasrtucture. Putting the ERP server on a high availability
cluster platform with ShaoLin HA Cluster ensures an optimimal uptime to
maximize the ROI of the ERP. Real-time data protection for business
critical data of the ERP system can be achieved with ShaoLin Volume
Replicator. All these combinations form the ultimate ebusiness solution
by offering the best combination of applications and platform which
offers a maximum ROI'.
Vincent Lau, Chief Operation Officer, ABAS Business Solutions (PRC) Ltd.
says, ''We're excited about the strategic alliance with ShaoLin and is
at the right time. With the recent rapid global growth of Linux platform
based ERP system especialy in China and Europe, our synergy offers
customers with a total ERP system solution combining top-notch ABAS
Business Software and Shaolin's award-winning high performance and cost
effective infrastructure products.'' Vincent adds that ABAS has
supported Linux in the server side since 1995 and further in the client
side since 2003. Over 50% of the 1,500 ABAS installations worldwide are
based on Linux technology. Through this strategic alliance, ABAS and
ShaoLin can leverage on the strengths of both companies to deliver high
performance ERP system running on a high availability cluster platform
reliably together with ERP clients running on well managed 'Fit Client'
desktops.
About ShaoLin Microsystems Ltd.
ShaoLin Microsystems Ltd. is one of the world's leader in the creation
and development of Linux infrastructure and storage software. ShaoLin
Microsystems provides end-to-end Linux solutions to different size of
enterprises and organizations around the world. As a Linux kernel and
file system technology R&D company, ShaoLin develops and markets wide
range of Linux software products, which include desktop deployment and
management solution, storage & network management software,
high-availability cluster, and disaster recovery solution. ShaoLin is
recognized as one of the rapid growing Asian software companies with
industry-leading products. For more information, please visit
www.shaolinmicro.com.
About ABAS Software AG
ABAS Software AG is the leader specialized in ERP solutions. More than
1,400 customers have adopted for ABAS as their IT specialist and for the
integrated standard abas business software which has become one of the
most successful ERP programs on the international market during the past
years. ABAS has established a professional partner network consisting of
more than 400 IT organisational and application consultants. The ABAS
sales partners tend to the customers and provide a range of support
services covering implementation, hardware and network support,
customization and helpdesk. For more information, please visit
www.abas.de.
For further information, please visit www.shaolinmicro.com
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ShaoLin Microsystems Ltd.
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