MontaVista Software Establishes Presence in Taiwan; New Distribution Channel Expands MontaVista's Reach in Asia.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2002 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, and Master Integrated Appliances Co., Ltd. (MasterIA), an information appliance design service provider located in Taipei, have joined forces to distribute and support MontaVista Software products in Taiwan. Under the terms of the agreement, MasterIA will distribute the full range of MontaVista solutions, including MontaVista(TM) Linux(R), MontaVista High Availability Framework, VisualAge(R) Micro Edition for MontaVista Linux, Qt/Embedded(TM) for MontaVista Linux and MontaVista Graphics. MasterIA will also provide technical support for embedded developers in Taiwan. "Taiwan is an important market and distributors such as MasterIA will accelerate the penetration of MontaVista Linux among embedded developers in Asia," said Raymond Mak, vice president of Asia Pacific sales for MontaVista. "MasterIA has the required resources, including experienced and talented embedded Linux engineers, to provide excellent product support." MasterIA was founded in January 2000 and is currently focused on the information appliances market. With this new partnership, MasterIA will also be able to aggressively expand into the Taiwanese telecom and datacom arenas. MontaVista has targeted these three markets as having the most potential for embedded Linux. MasterIA is a subsidiary of World Peace Group (WPG (WordPerfect Graphics) A graphics format developed for use in WordPerfect documents. WPG files can contain vector graphics or raster images. WPG - Workstation Products Group ), a semiconductor components distributor with revenues for 2001 forecasted at $1 billion. WPG is the largest distributor for Intel in Asia Pacific and also has solid business relationships with other major chip vendors in the region. For more information, visit www.wpg.com.tw. About MontaVista Software, Inc. MontaVista Software Inc. powers the embedded revolution by providing 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. (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's principal products include MontaVista(TM) Linux(R), a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development platform and set of 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, XScale and other microprocessor architectures. MontaVista offers a family of products and services for embedded design and development of applications for a variety of technologies ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer devices. MontaVista Software also provides several technology add-on products addressing specific customer needs such as the Java development environment, High Availability technology, powerful graphics toolkits 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, 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, US Venture Partners, and 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. ., as well as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel Capital and Sony Corporation. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email info@mvista.com or call 408/328-9200. Note to Editors: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista 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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