For MontaVista customers, the word "support" means much more than technical support. It encompasses all the value-added services we provide to help make Linux even more of an enabler for your projects: software maintenance, training, technical support, and engineering services such as hardware bring-up, feature integration, porting, benchmarking, and testing.

For example, when we backport enhancements and fixes from new Linux kernel releases into stable releases of MontaVista products, we offer backported fixes to the community. However, kernel.org wants only fixes to the latest kernel version, so backported fixes are not accepted. They are available only in MontaVista Linux.

We staff our support and professional services organizations with Linux engineers and electrical engineers who have extensive embedded experience developing commercial software and hardware products. When you need to meet your time-to-market deadlines, to test and validate your drivers, or to help you build full device stacks, our professional services team can help you. We enable the biggest names in the business this way.

In addition to the technical aspects of open source software, there are legal aspects to consider, such as GPL and open source licenses. MontaVista's expertise in open source software also extends to its understanding of the complex legal issues involved in deploying open source.

MontaVista provides support in the broadest sense by filling the gaps you encounter when using open source software. We help you get the most from open source. This level of embedded Linux development support is available only from MontaVista.

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