China Software announced on December 20 that its two subsidiaries -- Tianjin Kylin Information and Standard Software will be merged into one through a share swap.
After the transaction is completed, Standard Software will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tianjin Kylin, which will remain a state-owned and listed company under China Software.
The purpose of the transaction, the company said, is to integrate the resources of the two makers of homegrown operating system in a bid to create a new flagship of China-made operating system and provide the domestic computer industry with a “China brain".
Standard Software is the developer of the NeoKylin OS, while the Tianjin Kylin Information is the operator of the Kylin OS, which are both domestic operating systems.
The logos of these two operating systems are both the "Kirin", a beast in ancient Chinese legends. Their difference is that NeoKylin OS has a red logo and Kylin OS has a blue logo.
At present, the two companies have occupied more than 90% of the market share of domestic operating systems in the government and defense office fields and have been widely used and recognized in the financial, energy, transportation, and medical industries.
The two companies’ operating system products can support many mainstream domestic CPU products such as "Longxin, Feiteng, Kunpeng, Shenwei, Zhaoxin, Haiguang", and the user experience and application support environment are consistent.
