No changes will be made to Turbolinux's Asia-Pacific business following the acquisition of its software section by Japan's Software Research Associates (SRA).
Asia Pacific manager Ashok Pandey, based in Beijing, said Turbolinux planned to continue focusing on large enterprises and government business in the mainland market, while the Japan operation would be managed separately.
Turbolinux said this week it would sell its name and Linux-related business to SRA, one of Japan's oldest software firms. No financial terms were disclosed.
What remains of the California-based company will focus on software for partitioning hard drives.
Mr Pandey said the fact that Turbolinux's mainland operation was 51 per cent owned by Space Linux, a unit of China's Aerospace Ministry, meant the SRA purchase would not directly affect the China business.
He hoped SRA's involvement would mean more backing for porting software to the Linux operating system.
'Because SRA is a software company in Japan and Linux is their strategic platform, so they're going to move a lot of applications to Linux platforms,' he said.