ACCESS and MontaVista Enhance Partnership for Consumer Electronics Market; MontaVista Linux Now Supports Popular NetFront Embedded Browser.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 19, 2002 MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution(TM), and ACCESS Co. Ltd., a leading global provider of software and services for IP-based consumer electronics devices, today announced they will expand their current partnership to deliver consumer electronics solutions to their mutual customers worldwide. MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Professional Edition now supports the latest version (i.e.: v 3.0) of the popular NetFront(TM) browser from ACCESS. NetFront is the most widely used embedded browser in the world with more than 72 million licenses. This full-featured, sophisticated browser is already used in some 177 different Internet-connected consumer electronics devices from 40 major manufacturers. "Linux is increasingly becoming the systems software of choice for consumer electronics OEMs," said Toru Arakawa, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , ACCESS Co., Ltd. "ACCESS and MontaVista Software will work closely together to provide embedded Internet software solutions for developers seeking to build next-generation products for the consumer electronics markets." MontaVista Linux Professional Edition provides the scalability, dependability and performance required for consumer electronics applications such as smart mobile phones, wireless PDAs, set-top boxes and automotive telematics. This feature-rich embedded Linux development environment is already being used by scores of consumer electronics device companies that are developing products for the mobile, home, networking and automotive markets. According to a recent market research report from Venture Development Corporation (VDC VDC Volts Direct Current VDC Venture Development Corporation VDC Vehicle Dynamic Control VDC Village Development Committee (Nepal) VDC Virtual Data Center VdC Verband der Cigarettenindustrie ), consumer electronics is the fastest growing market segment for Linux, at an annual growth rate of 49.0 percent and reaching $149.6 million in shipments by 2006. VDC also estimated that consumer electronics will be the largest segment of the embedded Linux market by 2006 with 43.2 percent of total revenue of $346 million. "A recognized global leader in embedded browsers and services, ACCESS now offers our customers a solution that can speed their time-to-market," said Hitoshi Arima, vice president of Sales, Japan, MontaVista Software. "By integrating with NetFront, we are able to offer a proven, scalable, robust and secure mini-browser solution to the worldwide embedded developers community." ACCESS and MontaVista concluded their original partnership agreement in 2001 and have already assisted mutual customers developing residential network terminals and IP phones. The NetFront product line includes Compact NetFront, which is target for cellular phones and small mobile terminals, NetFront for DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. , and NetFront for Automotive. ACCESS will exhibit NetFront with MontaVista Linux during the Embedded Technology Show in Tokyo, from Nov. 20 to Nov. 22 in MontaVista Booth No.A-15. About NetFront NetFront v3.0 is a modular, scalable browser designed specifically for resource-constrained consumer information appliances, delivering high performance and an extensive feature set with low requirements for memory and power. NetFront's modular architecture allows custom configurations for specific target hardware. This unique scalability lets NetFront v3.0 cover a broad range of appliance profiles from mobile phones to digital television sets. In addition to the latest W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). specifications HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. 4.01 and XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. 1.0, NetFront v3.0 supports enhanced features such as Dynamic HTML, ECMA Script (JavaScript), DOM (Document Object Model), CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. , and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (Secure Socket Layer). JV-Lite2, a J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition) A version of Java 2 for cellphones, PDAs and consumer appliances. J2ME uses the K Virtual Machine (KVM), a specialized Java interpreter for devices with limited memory. compliant Java runtime environment The combination of the Java Virtual Machine, the core class library and supporting files, all of which are required to run a Java program. See Java and Java Virtual Machine. , and an MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. client are also available as optional modules. MontaVista Linux MontaVista Linux Professional Edition is one of the most widely used embedded Linux operating systems and development platforms. It includes an impressive array of cross-development tools for system and application code, unparalleled processor and board support, native real-time performance in Linux, and hundreds of deployable utilities, libraries, drivers, and other run-time components. Earlier this year, MontaVista Linux Professional Edition was named "Best Embedded Linux Solution" at the New York Linux World and Expo. The product received the "Electron d'Or" award for "Best Embedded Tool and Development Solution for 2002" from the prestigious French publication "Electronique," and the "Readers' Choice Award" for "Favorite Embedded Solution 2002" from the American magazine "Linux Journal." Availability MontaVista Linux Professional Edition is available from MontaVista Software and the company's sales and distribution channels worldwide. It is offered as a product subscription, providing customers with the MontaVista Linux kernel, utilities, development tools, software updates, access to the MontaVista Zone and full technical support. NetFront v3.0 is available from ACCESS Co. Ltd. About ACCESS ACCESS Systems America, Inc., is the U.S subsidiary of ACCESS Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange Main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo. It opened in 1878 to provide a market for the trading of government bonds newly issued to former samurai. : 4813), a leading global provider of software and services for IP-based consumer electronics devices. The company's NetFront(TM) suite of browser software powers over 177 different commercial products worldwide including mobile phones, digital televisions, set-top boxes, PDAs and car navigation systems. ACCESS' Compact NetFront(TM) microbrowser is most widely deployed in phones for NTT NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation NTT New Technology Telescope NTT National Technology Transfer, Inc NTT Name That Tune (TV game show) NTT National Tree Trust NTT Number Theoretic Transform DoCoMo's popular i-mode service. To date, more than 72 million ACCESS software licenses have shipped from more than 40 major Internet device manufacturers. ACCESS Systems America is based in Fremont, Calif. More information is available at www.access-us-inc.com About MontaVista Software MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software for intelligent connected devices and their associated infrastructure, for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing GNU/Linux-based open-source systems software solutions. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista Software's principal products include MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Professional Edition and MontaVista(TM) Linux(R) Carrier Grade Edition. The Professional Edition comprises a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development environments, and a versatile set of tools for the x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , SH, ARM, XScale, Xtensa and other microprocessor architectures. The Carrier Grade Edition is a next-generation high availability product that is the first Commercial Off-The-Shelf Linux (COTS) platform for telecommunications and carrier-grade applications. MontaVista Software also provides several complementary technology products addressing specific customer needs, such as Java development and runtime, powerful graphics capabilities and more. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by leading investors such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co WR Hambrecht + Co. is a full service investment bank with headquarters in New York and San Francisco. It specializes in using its unique auction process called OpenIPO to compete with the traditional methods of larger and more established banks. ., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic, Sony and Yamaha Corporation. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. 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