Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:15:23 -0800 From: "Mei-Ling Tao" <mtao@redsonic.com> To: <mhall@internet.com>, To: <mrynge@internet.com> Subject: Press Release REDSonic announces its upcoming events in Asia, which will provide Linux developers and users a new vision of the real-time embedded operating System by using REDICE-Linux. Orange County, California, February 9th, 2001 REDSonic, Inc., a provider of real-time and embedded Linux solutions, today announced its upcoming events in Asia, which will provide Linux developers and users a new vision of the real-time embedded operating system by using REDICE-Linux. This series of events will be held in Taiwan, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo from February 21st - March 2nd 2001. REDSonic intends to showcase and demonstrate a number of its products and services at those events. REDSonic will showcase its real-time Linux technology, embedded development tools, and present several live demonstrations ranging from a high performance real-time embedded web server to quality of service resource management technology. REDSonic will feature the following: REDICE-Linux: REDSonic's premier offering, is a low-latency preemptible kernel and includes a flexible scheduler which provides soft and hard real-time performance while maintaining full compatibility with existing Linux applications. It is available for x86 and StrongARM CPU architectures and soon will be available for PowerPC, MIPS, and ARM7 CPU architectures. RED-Probe 2.0: Is a graphical tool for monitoring the behavior of real-time embedded systems. RED-Builder 2.0: RED-Builder is a graphical tool for configuring, building and downloading target images to the application platform. RED-Builder gives developers the ability to build embedded systems for REDICE-Linux. RED-Manager: A live demonstration of RED-Manager, which is a Quality of Service Resource Management tool ported to a 1U e-server. RED-Kit: This is our complete hardware/software set-top box for evaluation, which will provide application developers the ability to create real-time applications and programs. Event schedule: Location Date Topic Tokyo, Japan 2/21/01 Product Announcement Reception Beijing, China 2/23/01 Product Announcement Reception Beijing, China 2/24/01 Real-time programming/Using REDIC-Linux Singapore 2/26/01 Product Announcement Reception Singapore 2/27/01 Real-time programming/Using REDIC-Linux Taipei, Taiwan 3/1/01 Product Announcement Reception Taipei, Taiwan 3/2/01 Embedded systems programming/Using REDIC-Linux ABOUT REDSonic, Inc. REDSonic, Inc. is a leading provider of Total Real-Time Linux Solutions. Based in Orange County, California, REDSonic was co-founded in the Spring of 2000 by a select team of academic and industry professionals representing a rich mixture of experience and expertise in the field of real-time Linux technology. Providing the critical RTOS software, development tools, hardware design, and professional services necessary for the embedded system and information appliance marketplace, REDSonic has positioned itself at the vanguard of this emerging industry. Coupled with industry leading services support, REDSonic’s products include: REDICE-Linux ™ (A Real-Time Linux Operating System) RED-Probe ™ (A Real-Time Event Monitoring Tool) RED-Builder ™ (An Embedded Image Building Tool) RED-Kit (STB Evaluation Platform) For more information: Contact REDSonic at http://www.redsonic.com, via e-mail to info@redsonic.com, or by phone (949) 833-9679 or fax (949) 833-9479. REDICE-Linux, RED-Builder and RED-Probe are trademarks of REDSonic, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.