Leading handset manufacturers such as Panasonic®, Motorola®, and NEC have made MontaVista the leader in embedded Linux commercialization for mobile products.

“MontaVista Mobilinux currently dominates the Linux market for wireless devices, having implemented over 90% of Linux-based smartphones shipped in 2007,” stated a research report last month by the Mobile Consumer Lab of the International University of Japan.

“MontaVista helps mobile engineers get the most from open source,” said Dan Cauchy, director of marketing of mobile and carrier products for MontaVista Software, “and we are gratified by the number of customers, partners, and industry publications that have recently confirmed that mobile device manufacturers using Mobilinux enjoy faster time to market, more competitive device functionality, and lower total cost.”

Recent announcements provide further proof of the value of Mobilinux in the mobile device industry:
MontaVista Mobilinux 5.0 earned Embedded Computing Design’s Editor’s Choice Award, and was this month named a finalist for the EDN Innovation Award as software that “demonstrated innovation that resulted in a significant advance in technology.”
Last month at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Motorola ROKR™ E8 – a handset based on Mobilinux – earned four prestigious awards, including: CNET People’s Choice Award as Best in Show, CNET Best of CES (cell phone category), Popular Mechanics Top 20 Products of CES Editor’s Choice Award, and Laptop Magazine Best Cell Phone of CES.
Yesterday ACCESS Co., Ltd. And MontaVista announced the release of a pre-integrated software stack combining the ACCESS Linux Platform™ with the MontaVista Mobilinux operating system. Because the new software stack pre-integrates the ACCESS Linux Platform framework and applications with MontaVista’s commercialized Linux operating system, it can significantly decrease the engineering time required for integration, while also reducing associated costs and risks.
Yesterday MontaVista and DataViz, Inc. announced the availability of Documents To Go® for Mobilinux 5.0, enabling mobile device manufacturers to give their Linux device users the ability to open and view Microsoft® Office Word, Excel® and PowerPoint® email attachments on their devices.
Yesterday Movial announced that Movial IXS (Internet Experience Suite), a white label application suite for creating custom branded user interfaces, is available to help manufacturers of MontaVista Mobilinux-powered devices speed development of next-generation mobile applications for consumer electronics and mobile devices.
Today EB, NextWave Wireless, and MontaVista announced that the world’s first Linux-based WiMAX mobile handset was designed and built by EB and NextWave with MontaVista Mobilinux in only nine months.

To learn more about how the industry’s leading mobile companies use Mobilinux to reap significant cost and time to market advantages, attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain can visit MontaVista at stand 2.1A72.

MontaVista Software, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux commercialization. MontaVista helps embedded developers get the most from 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