MontaVista Debuts Embedded Graphics Strategy; Announces Hard Hat Graphics Environment and Delivers Qt/Embedded Toolkit for Hard Hat Linux.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LinuxWorld Conference & Expo SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001 MontaVista Software MontaVista Software develops systems software, development tools and Embedded Linux-based software targeting embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications equipment, and television set-top boxes and other connected devices and infrastructure. Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today launched a two-pronged graphics strategy that offers embedded developers using the company's flagship product, Hard Hat Linux (HHL HHL Handelshochschule Leipzig (Leipzig Graduate School of Management) HHL Hypophysenhinterlappen HHL Highway Hockey League HHL Herefordshire Housing Ltd (UK) HHL Hand-Held LIDAR HHL Hobby Hockey League ) 2.0 Professional Edition, a choice of the industry-leading graphics development environments. Hard Hat Graphics (HHG HHG Household Goods HHG Holy Hand Grenade HHG Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) HHG High Harmonic Generation (laser frequency conversion) HHG Hypergonadotropic Hypogonadism HHG H. H. ), the first full graphics add-on product for Hard Hat Linux, and the Qt/Embedded graphics toolkit from Trolltech, Inc. are now available from MontaVista, with customer shipments commencing in September. Both of these new products are on display at Linux World and Expo at the MontaVista Software booth (No. 567), from August 28-30, 2001, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Hard Hat Graphics is a high-end, open source environment for building state-of-the-art, graphics-based applications for embedded devices. HHG incorporates Tiny X (a small footprint version of the X 11 Window system); GTK See GTK+. +, a multi-platform graphics toolkit designed for the X Window system; Glade, a Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) builder for GTK+; and the IceWM window manager, a small, lightweight window manager for the X Window system. As a foundation for future designs, HHG also provides an extensible multimedia platform for developing the next generation of digital multimedia devices. For the growing number of developers familiar with Trolltech's popular toolkit, MontaVista delivers Qt/Embedded for HHL, a package designed and tested to work with Hard Hat Linux. This industry-leading graphics toolkit, optimized for embedded Linux, includes the Qt/Embedded GUI development environment; along with Qt Designer, a full-function GUI builder; and the recently announced Qt Linguist, which provides international language translation. "Embedded Linux has been gaining market share extremely rapidly, despite a lack of clear consensus on GUI and windowing For Northcoast Where we call someone over and then roll our window up on them. Bassline preference. For Example: "Hey, Andi." *insert window being rolled up* "HAHAHA. APIs," said Rick Lehrbaum, founder and executive editor of ZDNet's popular LinuxDevices.com embedded Linux website. "By focusing their resources on two highly popular standards-based graphical architectures -- Tiny-X/GTK and Qt/Embedded -- MontaVista is encouraging a trend that is likely to accelerate the impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. dominance of embedded Linux. Together, these two options give developers a high degree of flexibility and choice, in terms of licensing model, software architecture, and programming language." "MontaVista continues to enhance its core offerings with quality upgrades and `best in class' add-on products," said Michael Mathews, product manager at MontaVista. "Hard Hat Graphics is a high performance graphics environment while Qt/Embedded for Hard Hat Linux is a powerful graphics toolkit. These offerings provide embedded developers the flexible graphical building blocks they need for a broad range of applications, including telematics, set-top boxes, instrumentation, Internet appliances and industrial control." Both offerings will help developers create and deliver powerful graphics-based applications for Hard Hat Linux. Both are extensible and modular, provide access to source code, and are scalable to meet "right-sizing" requirements for today's embedded devices. Availability Both Hard Hat Graphics and Qt/Embedded for HHL are available immediately from MontaVista to subscribers of the Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition. About Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition boasts unrivaled development support for the broadest range of embedded processor architectures, with more than 480 fully tested and supported host-target combinations. The feature-rich product enables development and deployment for a wide variety of embedded applications, providing a standard platform for designs in communications infrastructure, networking, consumer electronics, instrumentation and control. About MontaVista Software Inc. MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open source systems software solutions for embedded developers. 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. pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal offerings are the cross development tools and operating system tailored for embedded developers. MontaVista products include Hard HatTM Linux(R), a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, development platform and tool kits for 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, and other microprocessor architectures. MontaVista offers developers a family of products and services for embedded design targeted for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to thin-client and edge applications. MontaVista Software also makes available valuable technology add-on packages that address specific customer requirements such as the Java development environment, High Availability technology, legacy 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. porting tools, GUI toolkit 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 Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE RRE Red Rock Eater (News Service) RRE Road Race Engineering RRE Remote Roof Easy RRE Residential Real Estate RRE Rise-And-Run-Length Encoding RRE Royal Radar Establishment (Great Britain) 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. ., and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call 408/328-9200. Note to Editors: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. |
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