Fujitsu hopes to have resolved those reliability concerns with donated software contributions to the Linux systems maintained by Red Hat (nasdaq: RHAT - news - people ) and Novell (nasdaq: NOVL - news - people ), including fault-resilient driver software and system crash analyzers.
Regardless, Beidou could be well on its way to become the new Xiaomi (sans the software part), though only time can tell whether it has the reliability and after-sale service to prove it.
Since data in cloud-based software resides outside the company, customers must have confidence in the security of data and the reliability of data storage.