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Immediate Release

MontaVista Targets Mobile and Connected Applications with Hard Hat
Linux for Hitachi SuperH Processors

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 9, 2001 - MontaVista Software Inc., the
company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the
availability of the Hard Hat=81 Linux=AE embedded operating system and
development tools for the Hitachi, Ltd. SH-3 and SH-4
microprocessors. The high performance, low-power SuperH processors
provide an ideal hardware platform for Hard Hat Linux, especially for
target applications in handheld, wireless, consumer, networking and
telematics systems.

With the combination of Hitachi's processors and MontaVista Hard Hat
Linux, and associated development tools, the companies provide
embedded systems designers with the necessary elements to speed
high-performance embedded solutions to market.

"Embedded Linux is a very important OS for our SuperH deployment
program. MontaVista has a solid reputation within the embedded-Linux
community for providing innovative software solutions and superior
technical expertise," said Tadahiko Sugawara, manager, Embedded
System Solution Dept., Semiconductor & Integrated Circuits Group at
Hitachi Ltd. "We will work together to support the growing class of
embedded-Linux designers."

"Our alliance with Hitachi is further proof of the acceptance of Hard
Hat Linux for embedded applications," added Hitoshi Arima, Japan
country manager, MontaVista Software. "Now, Hitachi SuperH-based
embedded designs, in Japan and worldwide, can benefit from the
scalability, robustness and openness of Hard Hat Linux."

MontaVista Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition (see accompanying
release) targets the Hitachi SH-3 and SH-4 processors with a
comprehensive tool set of compilers, debuggers, configuration
utilities, and the Hard Hat Linux kernel for Super Hitachi CPUs, and
supports the Hitachi Solution Engine 7709A (SH-3) and 7751 (SH-4)
reference platforms out of the box.   The Hitachi SH series joins
four other microprocessor architectures to give MontaVista unrivaled
CPU breadth and depth for embedded Linux development solutions.

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 percent 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 the 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 MontaVista's 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
software 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 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, Calif.,
MontaVista 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. SuperH is a trademark of Hitachi, Ltd. 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