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Chinese railway to ride on Turbolinux

China's National Ministry of Railways will use Turbolinux's software for centralized package delivery operations.

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China's National Ministry of Railways will use Turbolinux's software for centralized package delivery operations, the Japan-based Linux specialist said Friday. Three hundred copies of the company's server software will be used on 160 servers

The Turbolinux product, TurboHA, is "high-availability" software designed to ensure computer operations stay available by moving processes to functioning computers if one crashes. The software was developed by Turbolinux's China operation, the company said.