Linux is revolutionizing the embedded systems software market.  The advantages Linux offers relative to traditional proprietary embedded software solutions are tremendous.  These advantages translate to significant savings in total cost of ownership and quicker time to market.

MontaVista Software provides a family of commercial-grade open source Linux software development platforms. As integrated, tested environments, these platforms provide faster time-to-market than in-house roll-your-own Linux deployments.  

  
 

MontaVista Linux is now in its 5th generation, and includes some of the latest tools and technologies available in the Linux community. While the Professional Edition is the core product targeted toward the general intelligent devices market, MontaVista also offers products optimized for your specific markets or applications.

  




 



MontaVista's flagship product is a comprehensive commercial-grade Linux development platform providing a complete run-time operating system and full integrated development toolkits across a broad range of processor architectures.more »



Designed for telecommunications & data communications, CGE is the industry-standard foundation of a COTS Carrier Grade Linux platform, certified to meet this market’s exacting performance requirements of high availability, hardening, and real-time.
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Designed for the needs of wireless handsets and mobile devices, Mobilinux is an optimized Linux operating system and development platform with features addressing power management, hard real-time performance, fast start-up, and small footprint.
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With a comprehensive suite of Linux-specific developer tools, MontaVista provides you with direct control over the platform and all the tools you need to get to market quickly and efficiently.
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MontaVista Linux is the source of one of the worlds largest range of Board Support packages for Linux develeopment. Constantly updated and offering comprehensive solutions, MontaVista BPS's help reduce project risk, time to market and overall development costs. more »

 

With over 2,000 customers developing on MontaVista Linux across a wide range of industries, MontaVista is the undisputed leading provider of commercial-grade Linux development platforms for intelligent devices and communications infrastructure.


Leading the Charge in Commercial Grade Open Source Linux

MontaVista is the center of intellectual capital on Linux for intelligent devices. With world-class Linux OS offerings backed by a complete set of developer tools, best-in-class professional services and support, the broadest range of supported hardware platforms, and industry-leading test environments, MontaVista is the most complete provider of Linux solutions.

MontaVista invests a significant percentage of revenues back into new developments for Linux, and as a member of the open source community, MontaVista cycles those developments back into the community. This intellectual capital developed by MontaVista benefits the broader Linux intelligent device community in various ways; for example, MontaVista makes its test facilities and training and professional services support commercially available to any company who requests it, regardless of whether or not that company is a MontaVista operating system license holder.

This leadership has translated into success with customers. With four of the top five network equipment providers using MontaVista Linux, as well as some of the largest mobile phone, consumer electronics, and telecommunications firms in the world - MontaVista is by far the most-deployed Linux for embedded devices, powering over 40 million devices around the world.