What type of environment is this?
ALi used to be a chipset (and minor BIOS, IIRC) vendor. That looks like a Visual Studio 6 knock-off development environment (down to the icons -- compile, make, build, etc.), similar to AMI VeB (Visual eBIOS) -- I used that as a BIOS developer until very recently.

Probably used for low-level firmware / x86 software development would be my best guess. I know they built some embedded stuff back in the day that was 8051-based as well, could be supporting that.