MontaVista Becomes Founding Strategic Member of New Eclipse Organization

For Immediate Release

MontaVista Becomes Founding Strategic Member of New Eclipse Organization
Demos Eclipse-Based Development Tool ³DevRocket² at EclipseCon 2004

ANAHEIM, Calif., Feb. 2, 2004 ‹ MontaVista Software Inc., the company
powering the embedded revolution, today announced that it is a founding
strategic member of Eclipse, which recently reorganized as an independent
not-for-profit corporation. Eclipse, originally a consortium formed when IBM
placed the Eclipse Platform into Open Source, has now evolved into an
independent body. MontaVista CEO Jim Ready will serve on the board of
directors and help provide guidance and direction to the Eclipse Management
Organization.

³Eclipse creates an industry-standard platform for development, which is
open source and vendor-neutral. It allows integration of disparate tools
that have not necessarily been tested together,² said Skip McGaughey,
spokesperson for Eclipse. ³With its strong commitment to open source and
expertise as a provider of development platforms and tools for embedded
Linux applications, MontaVista Software will continue to be a great asset to
the Eclipse community.²

Eclipse is a prestigious open source community, which brings together the
broad range of software tools developers and providers helping to build,
refine and promote high-quality shared software technology. MontaVista
Software has been an active member and contributor to Eclipse since 2002.

"MontaVista Software has proudly demonstrated its commitment to Eclipse, by
adopting it as a strategic development framework, through founding
membership in Eclipse, and with contributions to Eclipse technology,²
commented Jim Ready, CEO and president, MontaVista Software. "MontaVista
Software strongly believes in the benefits of Open Source and looks forward
to continue being part of this initiative."

MontaVista recently announced MontaVista DevRocket 1.0, a fully integrated
and graphical development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse technology.
DevRocket provides a common look-and-feel across development host platforms
including Windows, Solaris and Linux, allowing all developers on a project
to share the same toolset, irrespective of the hosts they are using. With
unique MontaVista Linux integration and powerful tool extensions, MontaVista
DevRocket will dramatically improve embedded software developer productivity
and decrease time to market for their products. MontaVista will demonstrate
the new DevRocket IDE at the company¹s booth at the EclipseCon show this
week. 

MontaVista Software is a Silver sponsor of and is participating in the
EclipseCon first annual technical conference (Monday, Feb. 2nd, to Thursday,
Feb. 5th), in Anaheim, Calif.  MontaVista will also present a session titled
³Tux in Tool-land: Building an Eclipse-based development environment for
Embedded Linux² on Thu. Feb. 5, at 2 pm, at the conference.

About Eclipse
Eclipse has formed an independent open ecosystem of royalty-free technology
and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse-based tools give
developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform,
multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based
framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools,
saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration
technology, tool producers can concentrate on their areas of expertise and
the creation of new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is written
in the Java(tm) language, and comes with extensive plug-in construction
toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of
development workstations including Linux®-, QNX®-, OSx®- and Windows®-based
systems. Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting
the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org.

About MontaVista Software, Inc.
MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software and
development tools for intelligent connected devices and associated
infrastructure. MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing Open
Source GNU/Linux-based software solutions. Founded in 1999 by real-time
operating system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista offers a family of products
that address software developer needs encompassing applications ranging from
communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. MontaVista products
include MontaVista Linux Professional, Consumer Electronics and Carrier
Grade Editions. MontaVista DevRocket, a powerful integrated development
environment, delivers state-of-the-art development tools across all product
Editions. MontaVista Graphics offers a rich GUI development tools platform.

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

Contacts:
Joe Samagond
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications
MontaVista Software Inc.
Phone: (408) 328-9234
E-mail: jsamagond@mvista.com

Patricia Colby
PR Strategy and Business Development
Pacifico Inc. 
Phone: (408) 293-8600 x340
E-mail: pcolby@pacifico.com