Beijing, China — (press release excerpt) — Redflag Software Technologies Co., Ltd and Opera Software today announced their strategic agreement to work together on embedded browser solutions for the Chinese market. RedFlag will become an Opera reseller in China, and the two companies will undertake joint marketing and development efforts to tailor Opera to the Chinese embedded market.

As a result of the addition of Opera's browser, RedFlag will be able to offer original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and hardware manufacturers web-enabled solutions customized to fit with Red Flag's current product line.

• PDA solution — RedFlag's PDA solution will be enhanced to provide the best Internet experience available, including the display of complex web pages on small device screens.
• Set-top box solution — Licensees of RedFlag's broadband set-top box solution will benefit from special navigation features and plug-in support.
• Thin client solution — Opera is extremely small in size and represents a minimal resource strain, thus benefitting RedFlag's Thin Client licensees.

Until now, OEMs and software solution providers in Asia have been unable to use Opera in their products, as support for non-Roman alphabets (Unicode) had not been implemented.

In China, the government has moved to install the open-source Linux operating system provided by Red Flag in an attempt to avoid reliance on U.S. companies, particularly Microsoft. The successful RedFlag formula will now be replicated in the embedded market.

 
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