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[November 12, 2008]

QNX Launches Latest Release of QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Momentics Tool Suite

(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
QNX Software Systems announced the commercial availability of release
6.4.0, the latest version of the QNX Neutrino RTOS and QNX Momentics
Tool Suite.

The first major product developed under QNX Software Systems' hybrid
software model, the company said that release 6.4.0 introduces several
technologies to maximize the performance, reliability, and portability
of embedded systems for the automotive, industrial control, networking,
military, and medical industries, the company noted.

With release 6.4.0, QNX said the Neutrino RTOS now offers a fail-safe
file system to protect critical data in the event of a sudden power
failure or shutdown; a dramatically faster networking stack that
supports BSD 4.0 TCP/IP; variable page size tuning for faster OS
performance; certification to the POSIX PSE52 standard for greater
source-code portability; 802.11 a/b/g wireless networking; improved
ARMv6 memory management and vector floating point math support for
ARM11 processors; symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for the
Renesas 7786 processor; and e500 SMP support for the Freescale MPC8572
processor. In addition, QNX Software Systems has entered the QNX
Neutrino 6.4.0 microkernel for Common Criteria certification to the
Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+).

The QNX Momentics Tools Suite also offers significant enhancements,
including a high-resolution application profiler that detects sluggish
areas of application code through both instrumentation and statistical
sampling; support for the latest versions of the GNU toolchain (4.2.4)
and Eclipse CDT (4.0.x); and JTAG debugging.

Release 6.4.0 is the first major QNX product to be developed "live" on
Foundry27, the development portal where customers and other QNX
community members can access new software features and patches in real
time, download OS source code, and participate in the development of
QNX products. Since its launch in September 2007, the QNX Foundry27
community has grown to more than 20,000 members, with multiple
customer, partner, and employee projects underway, and several active
forums with large numbers of posts each month.

"A year ago, QNX launched its hybrid software model, an innovative
approach that allows commercial software to be developed out in the
open, so that customers can participate in the development process --
much as they would in an open source project," said Kerry Johnson,
director of product management, QNX Software Systems. "The success of
Foundry27 is proof that customers, technology partners, hobbyists, and
educational organizations worldwide have embraced the model, and
release 6.4.0, with its many new customer-driven features, is a
testament to the model's success."

QNX Software Systems, a Harman International company, is a provider of
realtime, embedded OS technology.

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