Immediate Release MontaVista Debuts Hard Hat Linux 2.0 at ESC Spring Highlights Stunning Array of Embedded Capabilities San Francisco, April 9, 2000 - MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the much-anticipated 2.0 release of its Hard Hat=81 Linux=AE operating system. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is the first embedded OS and tool kit based entirely on the latest Linux 2.4 kernel and boasts unrivaled support for embedded processor architectures, CPU boards, and software components. The feature-rich release spans the universe of embedded applications, targeting designs as diverse as consumer electronics, instrumentation/control, and communications infrastructure. Extremely scalable, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is equally at home on deeply embedded, diskless designs with small RAM/ROM footprints, and in complex business-critical applications, with stringent "5-nines" availability requirements, running hundreds of processes and managing massive loads. The hallmarks of Hard Hat Linux 2.0 are breadth and depth. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 targets over 20 processors from 5 industry-leading architectures, includ-ing x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, and SH (new to this release). These CPUs populate the 60+ boards supported in the release, including off-the-shelf production boards and evaluation/reference platforms from global semiconductor suppliers. A true embedded systems product, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 focuses on cross de-velopment capability, with tools available on 8 host environments, including Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Suse, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Solaris, na-tive/hosted Hard Hat Linux, as well as under VMWare on Windows NT/2000. Consequently, the Hard Hat Linux host-target matrix boasts over 420 fully tested and supported combinations! Bringing unprecedented power to embedded target systems, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 boasts over 200 software packages, comprising thousands of must-have deployable software components. Many are available for the first time for deeply embedded processors like PowerQUICC, StrongARM, MIPS, and SH. "Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is a tribute to the Open Source business model and to MontaVista engineering excellence," commented Jim Ready, founder and CEO of MontaVista. "By providing more functionality across more configurations, we enable embedded developers and OEM manufacturers to focus on their value-add to speed next-generation applications to market." Availability Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition is available direct from MontaVista and MontaVista distribution channels worldwide as a product subscription, providing the MontaVista Hard Hat Linux kernel, utilities, development tools and one year of technical support. It is open source, royalty-free, and built from 100% pure Linux sources. Also available for Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition are expanded add-on capabilities, including packages for embedded Java, High-Availability, legacy RTOS porting and emulation, and embedded GUI development. MontaVista will also make Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Journeyman Edition freely available for technical evaluation and other uses. A subset of Hard Hat Linux Professional Edition, it targets a sampling from all Hard Hat Linux CPU architectures and hosts on Red Hat Linux. It can be downloaded from the MontaVista Web site or obtained on CD-ROM for a nominal charge. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition will be available the last week of April 2001, and will be joined by additional functionality and add-on technologies within 30 days via on-line distribution and on CD-ROM. Come experience Hard Hat Linux 2.0 at ESC Spring in booth #122, from April 10-12, 2001, at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. For more information about Hard Hat Linux and MontaVista Software Inc., please call 408-328-9200 or visit the Web site www.mvista.com. About MontaVista Software, Inc. MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems soft-ware solutions for embedded systems. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's principal offering is the Linux operating system and cross development tools tailored for embedded systems. MontaVista products include Hard HatTM Linux=AE, a standard off-the-shelf binary distribution of Linux for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, Hitachi SH and other microprocessor architectures. Hard Hat Linux offers developers a family of open source solutions for embedded design, with targeted offerings for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to thin-client and edge applications. Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, California, Monta-Vista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors such Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co., and Intel Capital. For more information about MontaVista, please visit http://www.mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. Intel, Pentium and XScale are trademarks of Intel Corporation. StrongARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. PowerPC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. MIPS is a registered trademark of MIPS Technologies. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies. 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 ext. 340 E-mail: pcolby@pacifico.com