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Paul C. Kim is the Director of Marketing for Everex
Everex
Everex is a manufacturer of desktop and notebook personal computers. It was established in 1983 and headquartered in Fremont, California. The company was founded by Steve Hui, John Lee and Wayne Cheung. In 1988, Everex was the leader in tape backup sales with half the world market...

 (a subsidiary of First International Computer
First International Computer
First International Computer, Inc. is a Taiwanese computer and components manufacturer, that designs and manufactures computer products and electronic components for other electronics equipment manufacturers worldwide. The company's products include motherboards, embedded computing systems,...

 Global of Taiwan, TSE 3701http://hk.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=3701.TW) a supplier of personal computers, notebooks and ultra-mobile PCs.
Mr. Kim currently serves as the developer and lead visionary for Everex marketing. Known for developing unique and innovative PC products, his responsibilities include managing the daily and long-term promotional, and positioning strategies for the 25-year-old American PC company based in Fremont, California http://www.everex.com/corporate%20info/corporate%20info.htm.
In the summer of 2007, under the guidance of Kim, Everex partnered with OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org, commonly known as OOo or OpenOffice, is an open-source application suite whose main components are for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, and databases. OpenOffice is available for a number of different computer operating systems, is distributed as free software...

 to release the first Windows Vista-based PC with a pre-installed open source productivity suite. Targeting students and back-to-school shoppers, Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...

 stores throughout the US carried the computer.

From the success of using Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

 on a mainstream computer, Kim worked with David Liu of Faqly.com http://www.faqly.com to create a $198 PC running an Ubuntu
Ubuntu (operating system)
Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu...

-based OS and featuring open source software from companies such as Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 and Mozilla
Mozilla
Mozilla is a term used in a number of ways in relation to the Mozilla.org project and the Mozilla Foundation, their defunct commercial predecessor Netscape Communications Corporation, and their related application software....

. The desktop, which sold out over 10,000 units during the Christmas season, also featured a processor made by VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies
VIA Technologies is a Taiwanese manufacturer of integrated circuits, mainly motherboard chipsets, CPUs, and memory, and is part of the Formosa Plastics Group. It is the world's largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets...

. The two companies had previously collaborated to release an energy-efficient laptop loaded with Windows.

Showing further commitment to Linux and Open Source, in February 2008, Kim launched a 7" ultra-mobile notebook dubbed "CloudBook
CloudBook
The Cloudbook is an x86 subnotebook, or Ultra-Mobile PC developed by Everex using a VIA processor, chipset, and NanoBook reference design. It competes with the ASUS Eee PC, the OLPC XO-1 and the Classmate PC...

",. Stating ". "...we're not trying to be all things to all people.", the CloudBook promised consumers extreme light-weight and portability but made use of a hard disk drive rather than solid state drive. The device was similar to competitor EeePC. Kim plans to launch additional versions with larger screen sizes and keyboards in the future.

A product built especially for MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

 users, Kim again teamed with the gOS (operating system)
GOS (operating system)
gOS or "good OS" was an Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution created by Good OS LLC, a Los Angeles-based corporation. Its CIO Dave Liu described that after meeting Enlightenment and open source people, he realized that his dream to bring Web 2.0 applications into mainstream use could be achieved by...

 to create the gPC mini (aka. MyMiniPC) in April, 2008. Designed on an Intel Pentium Dual-Core mobile processor, the 2-inch PC ran gOS Space and featured OpenOffice.org as well as links to YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

, Gmail
Gmail
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service provided by Google. Users may access Gmail as secure webmail, as well via POP3 or IMAP protocols. Gmail was launched as an invitation-only beta release on April 1, 2004 and it became available to the general public on February 7, 2007, though...

 and Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...

. Similar in appearance to the Mac mini
Mac Mini
The Mac Mini is a small form factor desktop computer manufactured by Apple Inc. Like earlier mini-ITX PC designs, it is uncommonly small for a desktop computer: 7.7 inches square and 1.4 inches tall. It weighs 2.7 pounds...

, the specifications of gPC mini allowed it to run as a media machine.

In early, 2008, Everex was named "Linux Magazine’s Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2008".

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