From:	 Annette Oevermann <aoevermann@pacifico.com>
To:	 <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: MontaVista Announces Embedded Graphics Capabilities
Date:	 Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:00:22 -0700

MontaVista Debuts Embedded Graphics Strategy

Announces Hard Hat Graphics Environment and Delivers Qt/Embedded Toolkit for
Hard Hat Linux

San Francisco, August 28, 2001 ‹ MontaVista Software Inc., the company
powering the embedded revolution, today launched a two-pronged graphics
strategy that offers embedded developers using the company¹s flagship
product, Hard Hat Linux (HHL) 2.0 Professional Edition, a choice of the
industry-leading graphics development environments.

Hard Hat Graphics (HHG), the first full graphics add-on product for Hard Hat
Linux, and the Qt/Embedded graphics toolkit from Trolltech, Inc. are now
available from MontaVista, with customer shipments commencing in September.
Both of these new products are on display at Linux World and Expo at the
MontaVista Software booth (#567), from August 28-30, 2001, at the Moscone
Convention Center in San Francisco.

Hard Hat Graphics is a high-end, open source environment for building
state-of-the-art, graphics-based applications for embedded devices. HHG
incorporates Tiny X (a small footprint version of the X 11 Window system);
GTK+, a multi-platform graphics toolkit designed for the X Window system;
Glade, a Graphical User Interface  (GUI) builder for GTK+; and the IceWM
window manager, a small, lightweight window manager for the X Window system.
As a foundation for future designs, HHG also provides an extensible
multimedia platform for developing the next generation of digital multimedia
devices.
 
For the growing number of developers familiar with Trolltech¹s popular
toolkit, MontaVista delivers Qt/Embedded for HHL, a package designed and
tested to work with Hard Hat Linux. This industry-leading graphics toolkit,
optimized for embedded Linux, includes the Qt/Embedded GUI development
environment; along with Qt Designer, a full-function GUI builder; and the
recently announced Qt Linguist, which provides international language
translation.
 
"Embedded Linux has been gaining market share extremely rapidly, despite a
lack of clear consensus on GUI and windowing APIs," said Rick Lehrbaum,
founder and executive editor of ZDNet's popular LinuxDevices.com embedded
Linux website.  "By focusing their resources on two highly popular
standards-based graphical architectures ‹ Tiny-X/GTK and Qt/Embedded ‹
MontaVista is encouraging a trend that is likely to accelerate the impending
dominance of embedded Linux. Together, these two options give developers a
high degree of flexibility and choice, in terms of licensing model, software
architecture, and programming language."
 
"MontaVista continues to enhance its core offerings with quality upgrades
and Œbest in class¹ add-on products," said Michael Mathews, product manager
at MontaVista. "Hard Hat Graphics is a high performance graphics environment
while Qt/Embedded for Hard Hat Linux is a powerful graphics toolkit. These
offerings provide embedded developers the flexible graphical building blocks
they need for a broad range of applications, including telematics, set-top
boxes, instrumentation, Internet appliances and industrial control."
Both offerings will help developers create and deliver powerful
graphics-based applications for Hard Hat Linux. Both are extensible and
modular, provide access to source code, and are scalable to meet
"right-sizing" requirements for today¹s embedded devices.
 
Availability
Both Hard Hat Graphics and Qt/Embedded for HHL are available immediately
from MontaVista to subscribers of the Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional
Edition. 

About Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition
Hard Hat Linux 2.0 Professional Edition boasts unrivaled development support
for the broadest range of embedded processor architectures, with more than
480 fully tested and supported host-target combinations.  The feature-rich
product enables development and deployment for a wide variety of embedded
applications, providing a standard platform for designs in communications
infrastructure, networking, consumer electronics, instrumentation and
control.
  
About MontaVista Software Inc.
MontaVista Software Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems
software solutions for embedded developers. Founded in 1999 by real-time
operating system pioneer James Ready, MontaVista¹s principal offerings are
the cross development tools and operating system tailored for embedded
developers. MontaVista products include Hard HatTM Linux®, a Linux-based
embedded source and binary distribution, development platform and tool kits
for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, and other microprocessor
architectures. MontaVista offers developers a family of products and
services for embedded design targeted for applications ranging from
communications infrastructure to thin-client and edge applications.
MontaVista Software also makes available valuable technology add-on packages
that address specific customer requirements such as the Java development
environment, High Availability technology, legacy RTOS porting tools, GUI
toolkit and more.

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, email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Hard Hat is a trademark
of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks,
registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.
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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