MontaVista and Netgem Announce Partnership to Promote
Netgem’s Digital TV Software Platform Based on
MontaVista’s Hard Hat Linux Operating System 

NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, France, April 24, 2001 -–
MontaVista Software, the company powering the embedded
revolution, and Netgem, a leader in software platforms
for interactive television, have announced a technical
and marketing collaboration to integrate and promote
Netgem’s interactive software platform for digital TV
and MontaVista’s Hard Hat™ Linux. ®. 

The partnership provides for close co-operation on
both technology and marketing fronts. In particular,
it will enable the efficient and high quality
integration of Netgem’s digital interactive TV
software in the hardware platforms of both companies’
digital broadcasting and consumer electronics
manufacturing customers. 


This co-operation will provide operators with two
decisive technological and competitive advantages,
Linux and open Internet technologies. Linux brings
operators a very stable and adaptable open source
operating system. Open and Internet technologies allow
operators to reap the benefits of the availability and
cost-effectiveness of Web content and applications.  


Patrice Commune, MontaVista's vice president of
international operations, said, "This alliance offers
a complete embedded software solution that
significantly decreases time to market and lowers
total development costs of new generation digital
set-top boxes. Within the scope of ETSI’s DVB-MHP
model, digital TV applications designers will benefit
from MontaVista’s Hard Hat Linux for efficient
management of multimedia streams, data, and hardware
resources. The bundling of Hard Hat Linux within
Netgem’s Unified Interactivity Software platform will
lead to early and reliable delivery of the most
advanced video broadcasting and interactive
services." 


According to Joseph Haddad, Netgem’s CEO, “The
partnership with MontaVista gives us the opportunity
to focus all our resources on the heart of Netgem’s
technology; our digital interactive software that
unifies the best of digital video broadcasting and
Internet technologies in the same platform.
Furthermore, we are now able to rely on MontaVista’s
robust products and services for embedding our
software on the widest range of hardware environments
possible."
 

About Netgem

Netgem is a leading provider of interactive TV
technologies based on open, DVB and Internet
standards. Netgem licenses its interactive TV software
platform to analog and digital network operators
(terrestrial, cable, satellite operators,
telecommunication companies, ISP) and consumer
electronic manufacturers (television, set-top-box) and
works with prestigious client such as ONdigital and
Grundig. Netgem technology enables interactive
services such as web and mail access, video and audio
on demand, interactive advertising and online
commerce. Netgem offers a catalog of applications and
a comprehensive range of professional services and
reference designs. Netgem also supplies a range of
turnkey interactive products enabling time-to-market
deployments. www.netgem.com. 

Contacts	Business
	Tel	Press
	Tel

UK
	Keith.Armour@netgem.com
	44 (0) 1727 884 870
	Maggi@maggi-fox.co.uk
	44 (0)20 7487 3633
France
	Patrice.Fryson@netgem.com
	33 (0)1 55 62 55 62
	morlier@enterpress.com
	33 (0)1 41 34 20 94

Germany
	Nicolas.Swetchine@netgem.com
	33 (0)1 55 62 55 62
	L.turpin@lucyturpin.com
	49 (89) 41 77 6120

Spain
	Emmanuel.Biscay@netgem.com
	34 91 745 99 29
	lgcanomanuel@lucacom.es
	34 91 435 17 12

Italy
	Massimo.Michelucci@netgem.com
	39 02-77297533
	ggabet@grandangolo.it
	39 02 481 6918

Investor rel.
	Stephane.Bisseuil@netgem.com
	33 (0)1 55 62 55 55
	Stephane.Bisseuil@netgem.com
	33 (0)1 55 62 55 55
 
 
 
 

About MontaVista 

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 Hat Linux, 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. 

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. 

Hard Hat is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. 

Intel, Pentium and StrongARM are registered trademarks
of Intel Corporation. 

PowerPC is a registered trademark of International
Business Machines Corporation. 

All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered
trademarks or service marks of their respective
companies. 
 

ISSUED ON BEHALF OF: MORE INFORMATION FROM: 

MontaVista Software  JDK Marketing Communications

6 rue Jean Pierre Timbaud The Old Granary

Bâtiment A1 - Le Campus Squerryes

78180 Montigny Le Bretonneux Goodley Stock Road

Westerham, Kent TN16 1SL 

France  UK

Tel: + 33 1 3007 1397  Tel: +44 (0) 1959 562772

Fax: + 33 1 3007 1399  Fax: +44 (0) 1959 564848

E-mail: mdorsan@mvista.com E-mail: frank@jdk.co.uk 


Contacts: Michel Dorsan Frank Cornell 

This information can also be found on the European
MontaVista FTP site by following the link:
ftp://ftp.jdk.co.uk/MontaVista/Press/21019.htm




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