Immediate Release MontaVista Expands Development Toolbox for Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Powerful Configuration and Scaling Tools Highlighted at ESC Spring San Francisco, April 9, 2000 - MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced that the latest release of its flagship product, Hard Hat=81 Linux=AE 2.0 Professional Edition, features a comprehensive suite of development tools designed to streamline development, debugging and deployment of embedded applications. To address the needs of resource-limited, deeply embedded systems, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 introduces revolutionary system scaling and configuration tools, as well as performance analysis, source-level debug, and other utilities to speed embedded applications to market. To help developers right-size the Linux kernel and populate embedded Linux deployment images with an optimal file system, MontaVista introduces the Target Configuration Tool (TCT). This GUI-based utility enables developers to select only needed modules and drivers for inclusion in kernel builds, allowing bootable footprints scaled below 500 Kbytes. Using TCT avoids the drudgery of hand editing configuration and make files while managing dependencies among components. TCT similarly lets developers choose pre-built packages for inclusion in an embedded file system, including system binaries and data as needed. Once developers have a correctly configured kernel and trimmed file system, MontaVista's new Library Optimizer Tool analyzes application use of shared libraries and prunes away unneeded library code and symbols, yielding smaller, more efficient deployment images. "In Hard Hat Linux 2.0, MontaVista combines its extensive expertise in embedded systems development with its dynamic participation in the Open Source community," states Sheila Baker, MontaVista vice president of marketing. "With the tools and capabilities in this release, we can address the needs of both demanding embedded developers and of Linux hackers building and deploying embedded applications." With this release, MontaVista also expands support for a variety of open source tools retargeted for embedded cross development. These cross tools include versions of the Linux Trace Tool (kernel performance and execution analyzer), cbrowser, cflow, cprof, and cscope (C code analysis tools), DDD (a graphical debugger interface), and Code Crusader (a semi-open integrated development environment). Hard Hat Linux 2.0 also continues to leverage the ubiquitous open source GNU tools, including the gcc/g++ family of compilers/assemblers and cross versions of the GDB source-level debugger for kernel and application debugging. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 also features support for hardware-based source-level debug of the Linux kernel and device drivers with in-circuit emulation and run-control devices like Abatron's BDM and JTAG tools. These and other tools in Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition host on a wide array of development platforms, including Red Hat Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Suse, Mandrake, TurboLinux, Solaris, under VMWare on Windows, and natively on Hard Hat Linux for x86. Hard Hat Linux tools also target the broadest array of CPU architectures and board and system-level platforms of any embedded Linux development solution, including PowerPC, IA-32/x86, MIPS, StrongARM, and SH. Availability The tools described above are included in Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition, available direct from MontaVista and MontaVista distribution channels worldwide as a product subscription that encompasses the MontaVista Hard Hat Linux kernel, utilities, development tools and one year of technical support. 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. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition and the tools described above will be available the last week of April 2001, with additional functionality within 30 days via on-line distribution. 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. =46or 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. 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