Motorola Selects MontaVista Carrier Grade Linux as Preferred Development and Deployment Platform

Motorola, Inc. ( NYSE: MOT ) today announced the selection of MontaVista® Linux® Carrier Grade Edition ( CGE ) as the first preferred software development and deployment operating system for its Open Application-Enabling Platforms.

Customers of both Motorola and MontaVista will see improved coordination of product roadmaps and support programs, allowing them to more easily incorporate new and upgraded communications computing technologies into their products. Customers also will be able to receive support throughout their product lifecycles.

This new strategic relationship represents a significant expansion of an earlier agreement under which both Motorola and MontaVista products have been deployed to leading telecom equipment manufacturers worldwide.

“Working with an industry-leading carrier grade Linux provider for the embedded and communication markets will allow our joint customers to accelerate the development and deployment of next generation communications applications,” said Wendy Vittori, corporate vice president and general manager, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “Through our strategic relationship, we will work with MontaVista and the standards organizations to evolve the carrier grade Linux specification to meet a new set of industry needs that are emerging with the growing adoption of communications servers.”

Under the non-exclusive agreement, Motorola’s standard Open Application-Enabling Platforms will be certified with MontaVista Linux CGE, upon which enabling software products will be developed, integrated, tested and delivered. Further, MontaVista will continue to develop and optimize CGE on all current and future Motorola platforms and will support all deployed configurations including Motorola’s Open Application-Enabling Platforms and the AdvancedTCA®-based AXP products announced in 2004.

“With multiple generations of MontaVista Linux adopted by ten of the largest network equipment providers worldwide, we are confident that MontaVista is the leading and trusted provider of Linux for carrier-class deployments,” said Jim Ready, CEO, MontaVista Software. "Motorola is the leading systems provider to this industry and we view this expanded relationship as a watershed event for MontaVista, as well as one that provides further evidence of the accelerating demand for carrier grade Linux as a platform for network infrastructure. We are excited to be working closer with Motorola on its key initiatives around carrier infrastructure, and look forward to collaborating on more ways to deliver open-standards based solutions to assist leading telecom equipment manufacturers design differentiated products quickly and easily.”

As a participating member of the Motorola Embedded Connections alliance program since 1999, MontaVista has been actively engaged with Motorola to develop and market Linux on Motorola’s CompactPCI® single board computer and ProcessorPMC products.

About Motorola’s Open Application-Enabling Platforms
Open Application-Enabling Platforms are pre-integrated and validated embedded communications computing solutions designed to accelerate the development and deployment of next-generation communications applications. Telecom equipment manufacturers can focus on adding their application-specific value, thereby reducing the time, cost and risk involved in deploying new revenue-generating applications or migrating existing applications to standards-based technology. Motorola’s Open Application-Enabling Platforms are based on multiple technologies including AdvancedTCA and CompactPCI. For more information: www.motorola.com/computing.

About Motorola
Motorola is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband, embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. For more information: www.motorola.com.


Media Contacts:
Lee Ann Kuster
Embedded Communications Computing
Motorola
+1 602 438 3623
leeannkuster@motorola.com

Shreek Raivadera
Embedded Communications Computing
Motorola
+44 ( 0 ) 1509 634461
shreek@motorola.com

MOTOROLA and the Stylized M Logo are registered in the US Patent & Trademark Office and may be registered in certain other jurisdictions. CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA are registered trademarks of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a registered trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.

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