Microsoft, CS2C take joint aim at Chinese cloud market

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 13:08

IT Industry - Strategy

Microsoft and China Standard Software Co have formalised an agreement to jointly attack the cloud market in China.

We've all heard of Microsoft; China Standard Software Co (CS2C), not so much. The Shanghai-based company focuses on Linux and related software under the NeoShine, NeoKylin and NeoLite brands.

An agreement between the two companies is aimed at the joint development and marketing of mixed-source software for China's cloud market, using Hyper-V Open Cloud and NeoKylin Linux Server.

"Building on our heritage of providing CS2C NeoKylin Operating System and customised solutions for customers, we are seizing the important opportunity to collaborate with Microsoft to deliver comprehensive, flexible, cloud-based solutions that will serve as a platform for business growth," said Han Naiping, president of CS2C.

Simon Leung, chairman and CEO of Microsoft Greater China region, explained that the collaboration will support the companies' joint customers in China with solutions for the cloud.

The collaboration will include a joint virtual technology lab in Beijing that will focus on the certification of NeoKylin on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V, the development of Systems Center support for NeoKylin, and the addition of NeoKylin support to the Hyper-V Cloud architecture.

The two companies also announced that they had signed "a mutually beneficial customer legal covenant agreement" (presumably similar to the patent covenant between Microsoft and Novell).