MontaVista Software Establishes Presence in India
Celestial Systems Provides Additional Asian Distribution Channel
 
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 2, 2002 -- MontaVista Software Inc., the company
powering the embedded revolution, and Celestial Systems Pvt. Limited
(Celestial), a service provider focused on the embedded marketplace have
joined forces to distribute and support MontaVista Software products in
India.

Under the terms of the agreement, Celestial will distribute the full range
of MontaVista solutions, including MontaVista� Linux®, MontaVista High
Availability Framework, VisualAge® Micro Edition for MontaVista Linux,
Qt/Embedded� for MontaVista Linux and MontaVista Graphics. Celestial will
also provide technical support for embedded developers in India.

"India is an emerging market, with a great potential for near- and long-term
significant growth," said Raymond Mak, vice president of Asia Pacific sales
for MontaVista. "Besides being a global software development powerhouse,
India also has a tremendous embedded market both in traditional areas such
as instrumentation, industrial and medical devices, and in the
newlyliberalized telecommunications market segment."

Celestial provides complete embedded solutions to the Indian market, which
has a large population of world-class software developers. Celestial's staff
has in-depth experience working with RTOS customers and they understand the
needs of embedded customers in India.

³We are very pleased to establish a partnership with MontaVista. They are a
leader in the emerging market for embedded Linux solutions, and we hope to
contribute to their growth in India,² said Sanjay Raina, president of
Celestial Systems.

Celestial, with offices in New Dehli and Bangalore, is a sister company of
Pixtel Communications Inc., a world leader in software solutions for the
development of mobile phones. Pixtel is a privately held company based in
Vancouver, Canada, with customers in North America, Europe and Asia. For
more information about Celestial, visit http://www.celestialsys.com/.

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 (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista's
principal products include MontaVista� Linux®, a Linux-based embedded source
and binary distribution, cross development platform and a set of tool kits
for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, XScale and other
microprocessor architectures. MontaVista offers developers a family of
products and services for embedded design and development targeted for
applications 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 funded by leading investors
such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht +
Co., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic and Sony Corporation. For more
information about MontaVista Software, please visit
http://www.mvista.com,email info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.

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.

Contacts:

MontaVista Software
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

Celestial Systems
Sanjay Raina
Celestial Systems Pvt. Limited
Phone +91 98100 35572
E-mail: info@celestialsys.com