MontaVista, the Creator of the Embedded Linux Market Celebrates Its 10-Year Anniversary

MontaVista Software, Inc., a software company specializing in embedded Linux commercialization, celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Proud to have created and led the embedded Linux market, the company claims to look forward to the next ten years.

 

Founded in 1999 with a focus on delivering Linux for the embedded market, MontaVista (News - Alert) has contributed to the development and innovation of commercialized embedded Linux by offering a broad range of architectures, delivering commercial quality, and expanding the tools available for embedded developers.

 

On its 10th year anniversary, the company stands to have empowered nearly 60 million devices in the market today.

 

“MontaVista has been a pioneer over the last 10-years in the embedded software market with their Linux product and support offerings,” said Stephen Balacco, director Embedded Software and Tools Practice at VDC Research Group (News - Alert).

 

“In an ever-changing competitive landscape they are a trusted supplier, constant innovator and contributor to embedded Linux and the open source community. This has helped foster and accelerate the adoption of Linux as an embedded operating system for new embedded product designs,” added Balacco.

 

Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with offices worldwide, the company recently had announced MontaVista Linux 6, a new approach to embedded Linux development, and Meld, a community for embedded Linux developers.

 

“At the time the company was founded, the market was highly fragmented, comprised of many proprietary embedded real-time operating system offerings. I founded MontaVista with the goal of bringing the full benefits of open source Linux to embedded developers,” said Jim Ready, founder and chief technology officer of MontaVista.

 

“People said we were crazy, but we quickly proved otherwise, and today Linux has become the OS of choice for new embedded device designs,” added Ready.

 

Jim Ready wanted to make the company "100 percent Pure Linux" under the GNU General Public License.