SnapGear and Red Hat Collaborate for Embedded Solutions
SNAPGEAR TO COLLABORATE WITH RED HAT TO OFFER TURNKEY EMBEDDED SOLUTIONS
Joint Development Efforts Satisfy Growing Demand from Embedded Systems
Customers
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - August 30, 2002 - SnapGear, a leading supplier of
Internet security solutions, announced that the company is collaborating with
Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT) to offer customers complete hardware and software
embedded solutions that bring together the stability of embedded Linux with
experienced hardware design, manufacturing and fulfillment.
The arrangement gives customers a one-stop location for realising integrated
hardware solutions. At present, companies seeking to build in-house solutions
are daunted by the expense and risk of building themselves. Some design
houses offer integrated design solutions but generally pursue an approach
that locks a customer into a proprietary operating system weighted down by
large royalties. Basing product development upon Linux and open source
technology provides a much lower entry cost.
Recent surveys show that embedded Linux is moving into first place in 2002
for embedded application development. Reasons cited include high stability,
code maturity, an abundance of ready-made application code, and a simplified
licensing model.
Red Hat VP of Global Services Tony Moretto said: "When you bring together Red
Hat's knowledge of embedded Linux operating systems and ability to provide
end-to-end services and support with Snap Gear's embedded hardware
experience, you have a winning formula. Customers not only still have a
single point of contact, but now have access to everything they need, from
project conceptualisation to product delivery."
President of SnapGear Inc., USA Peter Cronk said: "We've been involved with
embedded Linux for several years and our kernel engineers have made large
contributions to the deeply embedded space, which entirely complements Red
Hat Linux. But a larger part of our business has been quietly providing OEM
solutions for major USA and European telecommunications companies. We've
built an impressive track record in design services, prototyping,
manufacturing at our ISO9002 facility, and global fulfillment operations. The
missing piece of the puzzle for us has been the ability to offer large scale
professional services, which Red Hat now provides."
Both companies have a global presence and the ability to deliver solutions on
the ground in any geographic area but take advantage of specialist
development teams located worldwide.
Availability
Customers interested in integrated development solutions can take advantage
of this collaboration immediately by contacting Red Hat or SnapGear Inc.
About Red Hat, Inc.
Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is
headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. and has offices worldwide. Please visit Red
Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com
About Snap Gear, Inc.
SnapGear Inc. produces Snap Gear VPN Firewall Appliances designed to provide
Internet security and privacy of communications for small to medium
enterprises. Snap Gear also does complete custom engineering and provides
turnkey development, design, manufacturing, and fulfillment services for
major telecommunications companies and silicon manufacturers. For more
information on Snap Gear products please visit www.snapgear.com.
For more information on Snap Gear OEM services please visit
www.snapgear.com/services.html
"Snap Gear" is a trademark of SnapGear Inc. "Red Hat" is a U.S. registered
trademark of Red Hat Inc. All other products, services, companies and
publications are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective
owners.
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Press only, contact:
Snap Gear, Inc.
Miles Gillham
E-mail: press@snapgear.com
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