MontaVista celebrates 10 years of embedded Linux

Embedded Linux Founder MontaVista Celebrates its Ten Year Anniversary 

Creator of the embedded Linux market achieves software industry milestone

SANTA CLARA, Calif.  July 13, 2009  MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux®
commercialization, announced its ten year anniversary celebration today. Founded in 1999 with a
focus on delivering Linux for the embedded market, MontaVista has remained committed to furthering
the development and innovation of commercialized embedded Linux through enabling a broad range of
architectures, delivering commercial quality, and expanding the tools available for embedded
developers, As a result of this focus and commitment, there are over 60 million devices in the
market powered by MontaVista Linux today.

Supporting Quotes:
"MontaVista has been a pioneer over the last ten years in the embedded software market with their
Linux product and support offerings," said Stephen Balacco, Director Embedded Software and Tools
Practice, at VDC Research Group. "In an ever changing competitive landscape they are a trusted
supplier, constant innovator and contributor to embedded Linux and the open source community. This
has helped foster and accelerate the adoption of Linux as an embedded operating system for new
embedded product designs"

 "At the time the company was founded, the market was highly fragmented, comprised of many
proprietary embedded real-time operating system offerings. I founded MontaVista with the goal of
bringing the full benefits of open source Linux to embedded developers," said Jim Ready, Founder
and CTO of MontaVista. "People said we were crazy, but we quickly proved otherwise, and today Linux
has become the OS of choice for new embedded device designs."

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Company History:
-	Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with offices worldwide
-	Mission: to bring the full advantage of open source Linux to the embedded market
-	1999 - Founded by Jim Ready
-	2000 - MontaVista captured over 80 customer design wins and significantly grew its talent pool
organically, without the need for acquisition. 
-	2001 - In April the company introduced MontaVista Hard Hat® Linux 2.0 , becoming the first
company to market with a product fully based on the newly released Linux 2.4 kernel 
-	2005 - Announced MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition 4.0, a ground-breaking carrier grade
Linux distribution. MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition has demonstrated 99.99999 percent
uptime. 
-	2006 - MontaVista Linux reached milestone of being deployed in 40 million devices, provided
support for 70 processors and 230 boards - greater than any other Linux provider. 
-	2006 - Added more than 200 logos to its customer and partner portfolio
-	2008 - Russell "Rusty" Harris was appointed as CEO. 
-	2009 - Announced MontaVista Linux 6, a new approach to embedded Linux development and Meld, a
community for embedded Linux developers

Technology Firsts:
-	First commercial embedded Linux for x86 
-	CompactPCI Backplane Networking for Linux (Hard Hat Net)
-	Embedded Linux Cross Development Kit for PowerPC (Hard Hat Linux CDK 1.1)
-	Linux Real-time capability
-	Linux Real-Time Scheduler
-	First Linux for Consumer Devices (CEE 3.0)
-	First Linux for Carrier Grade Equipment (CGE 2.1)
-	First, and still the only, vendor with CGL 4.0, LSB 3.0, and IPv6 certification

Open Source Contributions:
-	Top ranking embedded contributor to Linux kernel
-	Dynamic power management project
-	High-resolution POSIX timers project
-	Pramfs file system project

To find out more about MontaVista's history, hear interviews with our early employees, and view a
video with Jim Ready our founder, visit our Ten Year Anniversary web page.

Resources:
Our Products
Our Blogs
Webinars, white papers, and more
MontaVista on YouTube
MontaVista on Twitter
Meld on Twitter
How to find us

About MontaVista Software
MontaVista Software, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years,
MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding
commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the
MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more
competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with
MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com  

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States and other countries.
MontaVista is a registered trademark of MontaVista Software, Inc. All other names mentioned are
trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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