The leader in embedded Linux commercialization

MontaVista Software invented embedded Linux commercialization in 1999 to give device designers a platform to deliver the best possible product in the shortest possible time. Since then, due to growth and innovation MontaVista has remained the leading company in this category.

MontaVista helps embedded developers get the most from open source by providing commercial-grade 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,[1] more devices have been deployed with MontaVista than with any other Linux.

Customers that have built devices that run on MontaVista Linux include Amstrad, Boeing, Emerson, ITT, Motorola, NASA, NEC, NextWave Wireless, NTT DoCoMo, Oce, Samsung, Sony, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, the U.S. Department of Defense, Volvo, Yamaha, and more than 2,000 additional companies. MontaVista Linux powers tens of millions of products used around the world every day.

MontaVista customers do not pay for free software. They pay MontaVista for relieving them of some of the unique burdens of open source, enabling them to focus their resources on their most valuable, differentiating work.

MontaVista customers require four attributes in the software they use to develop and run their products:

1. Quality
2. Integration
3. Support
4. Hardware enablement

MontaVista’s open source leadership

When you select a Linux platform for your product, a provider that doesn’t work with the open source community won’t meet your needs.

Some companies are part-time Linux companies. Their main business may be processors or proprietary software, but they provide embedded Linux as a side business. They are not committed to open source. They don’t understand Linux or how to work with the open source community.

• A top 20 contributor to the mainline Linux kernel for several years in a row
• Contributed more lines of source code than all other embedded Linux companies combined
• Made Linux contributions of greater importance than those from any other embedded Linux company
• Active contributor or maintainer of key areas of Linux inside and outside the kernel, plus other kernel trees and communities
• Opened more hardware platforms to Linux than any other company
• Creator of the world’s largest educational conference for embedded Linux developers
• Member, sponsor, co-founder, director, board member, or chair of more than 20 open source organizations

We help you get the most out of open source

Embedded Linux has become the most-often-selected platform for developing new devices. MontaVista helps device designers and embedded application developers get the most out of Linux and other open source software. By doing so, we help you get to market more quickly, create the features you need to be competitive, and significantly reduce your overall project costs.

If you want your product to beat your competition, you must prioritize your development cycles to work on functions that will make your product superior. Every hour your team spends on undifferentiated work is an hour that does not contribute to your success. MontaVista support and professional services together with applications, tools, middleware and services from MontaVista’s community of more than 400 partners, all combine to let you focus on the work that matters. You have the control to build a better product and get it to market faster.

We don’t sell free software. As you can see, with MontaVista Linux commercialization we supply what is missing from open source, so you don’t have to.

[1] See "Embedded Linux Total Cost of Development Analyzed," Jerry Krasner, Embedded Market Forecasters, 2007.