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MANILA, Philippines -- South Korea's HaanSoft will be present in this month's open source conference in Cebu and is expected to rally local companies behind Asianux.

Asianux, a version of the Linux operating system, was developed by China's Red Flag Software and has since been locally deployed and distributed by Japan's Miracle Linux and HaanSoft, forming a regional open-source consortium.

"Haansoft has actively participated in the Asianux project and collaborated with China, Japan and is doing the same in Vietnam," said Bonifacio Belen, Cebu Education Development Foundation (CEDF-IT) executive director.

CEDF-IT is organizing the Philippine Open Source Summit on June 23 to 24. The event is touted to be the biggest gathering of local open source software firms nationwide.

HaanSoft, according to Belen, will send representatives to the conference along with other groups from Korea's academe and private sector.

"They want to tap into the (open source) community here and maybe try to create an Asianux Philippines," Belen told INQUIRER.net via phone interview.

A target market for Asianux is the public sector. In South Korea, the government's National Education Information System program bundled the Linux OS into PCs distributed to more than 10,000 schools.

Locally, the Advanced Science Institute of Technology (ASTI), under the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), created a version called Bayanihan Linux but adoption in government remains slow.

The creation of a standard Asian version is also aimed at encouraging hardware and software companies to adhere to a single standard to enable application compatibility, a key factor in adoption among end-users.

In its developer forum last March, Intel announced it has been collaborating with the Asianux consortium in developing a version made to run on mobile Internet devices (or MIDs) that use the company's Atom microprocessor.

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