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Motorola and MontaVista Software Announce OEM Agreement

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Motorola and MontaVista Software have announced a formal OEM relationship agreement, enabling the shipment of Motorola's Application-Enabling Platforms pre-installed with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE). This partnership enables equipment manufacturers to focus on their core competencies, leveraging standards-based, pre-integrated, and validated platforms. The collaboration aims to accelerate time-to-market and reduce risk in developing next-generation telecom equipment.

Key Takeaways:

  • The OEM agreement between Motorola and MontaVista Software will enable the shipment of Motorola's Application-Enabling Platforms pre-installed with MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE).
  • Motorola will be shipping AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI Application-Enabling Platforms pre-loaded with CGE, which includes the operating system, comprehensive hardware platform management, and fabric management.
  • The Basic Integrated Platforms operating environment also includes Linux Support Packages that integrate CGE with the underlying hardware environment.
  • The partnership aims to provide equipment manufacturers with the opportunity to focus on their core competencies, leveraging standards-based, pre-integrated, and validated platforms.
  • MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) is an industry-standard COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) Carrier Grade Linux platform providing functionality specifically for Telecom and Datacom with high availability, hardening, and real-time performance.
  • Motorola's Application-Enabling Platforms are based on multiple technologies including AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI, and are designed to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation telecom equipment.
  • MontaVista Linux product subscriptions provide developer teams with the MontaVista Linux kernel, deployment components, utilities, development tools, software updates, access to the MontaVista Zone (customer resource portal), comprehensive technical support, and hands-on Linux training classes.

Statistics:

  • Estimated availability of Motorola's Application-Enabling Platforms with CGE in Q4 of 2004.
  • Availability of MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition as a product subscription through MontaVista Software and its worldwide distribution channels.
  • Sales of Motorola in 2003 were US$27.1 billion.
  • Motorola creates innovative technological solutions that benefit people at home, at work, and on the move.
  • MontaVista Software has been a leading global supplier of systems software and development tools for intelligent connected devices and associated infrastructure since 1999.

Sources:

  • Motorocycle Computer Group, Motorola, Inc., NYSE:MOT
  • Motorocycle, Inc., NYSE:MOT
  • MontaVista Software, http://www.mvista.com
  • PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA
  • Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), Carrier Grade Linux Specification
  • Linus Torvalds, Linux, registered trademark

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