ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 Wins IT Excellence Award

ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 won "IT Excellence Awards 2002 (SMEs), Certificate of Merit - Product" in Hong Kong. The product was judged in recognition of outstanding achievements in technological innovations based on software product functionality, technical innovation, market performance and societal benefits.

ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 Wins IT Excellence Award

The Industry-Leading Linux Desktop Solution

(Hong Kong - February 24, 2003) ShaoLin Aptus 2.0 won "IT Excellence Awards 2002 (SMEs), Certificate of Merit - Product" in Hong Kong. The product was judged in recognition of outstanding achievements in technological innovations based on software product functionality, technical innovation, market performance and societal benefits.

"Since its launch last year, ShaoLin Aptus has been recognized as an industry-leading product in the Linux desktop market," said David Chow, CEO of ShaoLin Microsystems. "ShaoLin Aptus provides an excellence desktop system-management solution for organizations that desire reliable, manageable and low-cost desktop computing environment with open-source Linux. It eliminates desktop administration and maximizes the utlization of system resources with lowered total cost of ownership over traditional PC's and thin clients."

ShaoLin Aptus is a middleware for Linux, which turns networked PC's into the "Fit Client" network computing architecture. It extends the centralized management concept of thin client by allowing fully client-based computing. With ShaoLin's unique Intelligent Union Architecture (IUA), ShaoLin Aptus enables mulitple clients sharing the operating system and applications which stored at server over LAN transpartently. It provides dataless fit clients with independent computing power and the highest level of manageability.

About ShaoLin Microsystems Limited

ShaoLin Microsystems Limited is one of the world's leaders in the creation and development of Linux-based software and solutions. ShaoLin Microsystems provides end-to-end Linux solutions to different size of enterprises and organizations around the world. Based on our cutting-edge kernel and file system technologies, ShaoLin Microsystems' products allow customers full command over the open- source Linux operating system. ShaoLin focuses on software products development, which includes storage solutions, network management solutions, high availability cluster, and file systems. ShaoLin is recognized as one of the rapid growing Asian software companies with industry-leading
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