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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