In an attempt to penetrate the Chinese IT market, software giant Computer Associates Inc has announced an agreement with the country’s leading supplier of antivirus technologies. Under the deal, CA and Bejing-based China Jinchen will establish a joint venture that will integrate key components of CA’s popular Inoculan software with Jinchen’s Kill technology- the market leading antivirus software in China. The two companies said a series of virus protection products will be developed and marketed, under the Kill product name, for Microsoft’s Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Netware, Lotus Notes and MS Exchange environments. The software, which is being built on CA’s Unicenter TNG Framework, will be continually updated for new virus samples. The partnership, one of several alliances established between CA and Chinese IT companies, will help expose the UK software house to Jinchen’s one million user database, including some of the largest public and private enterprises in China. Kill software is already being used by the Chinese banks, including the Bank of China, brokerage houses, postal services and government departments. Yesterday, CA announced a Chinese version of its Jasmine object database (CI No 3,410). The software, developed in conjunction with Fujitsu, includes double-byte coding: a way of allowing the database to accommodate the large number of characters in the Chinese language by dedicating two bytes of memory to the more complicated letters.
