SANTA CLARA, Calif. — October 28, 2009 — MontaVista® Software, Inc., the leader in embedded Linux® commercialization, today announced more new Market Specific Distributions (MSDs) for MontaVista Linux[] 6. The new MSDs continue to expand the market specific focus of MVL6, delivering support for industrial automation, automotive, Android[], portable multimedia devices, and multicore[] networking applications. All the new MSDs will be available this quarter and support processors from Cavium, Freescale, Intel, and Texas Instruments.

Market Specific Distributions are built on a common framework, and optimized for the respective hardware platform and its target market. Each MSD is feature compatible with the semiconductor Linux technology for that processor, and is fully tested and supported by MontaVista. In addition, MontaVista adds additional features required to deliver a complete, commercial quality product to market.

MontaVista becomes the first commercial embedded Linux vendor to announce support for Industrial Automation, bringing added features such as advanced power management, RT Preempt support, and Ethernet enablement for PROFINET.

For networking, the new MSDs support some of the newest multicore processors from Intel, Cavium, and Freescale, offering added features like semiconductor-optimized library support for multi core management, and advanced network features like SCTP, OpenSwan, libpcap, and IPsec tools.

The Android MSD offers advanced power management, advanced 2D/3D graphics, semiconductor advanced codec enablement, along with Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity.

Similar to Android, the Portable Multimedia Device and Automotive MSDs offers advanced power management, advanced 2D/3D graphics, semiconductor advanced codec enablement, along with Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity, but also adds CAN (controller-area network) support.

Multifunction Printer (MFP) MSDs focus on value added features like advanced power management, advanced connectivity, memory management features like bigphysarea, and mass storage for larger HDDs.

“We continue to deliver on the promise of MontaVista Linux 6, delivering multiple high value, commercial quality MSDs for different target markets every quarter,” said Patrick MacCartee, Director Product Management and Hardware Enablement Strategies, MontaVista. “As our hardware partners develop powerful new platforms, we will remain committed to providing new MSDs as quickly as possible, aligning the embedded Linux supply chain, and allowing our joint customers to develop and deliver innovative applications to market faster and at a lower overall cost.”

About MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. For over 10 years, MontaVista has been helping embedded developers get the most out of open source by adding commercial quality, integration, hardware enablement, expert support, and the resources of the MontaVista development community. Because MontaVista customers enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost, more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux. To learn more, please visit www.mvista.com