LynuxWorks Offers Premium tool Bundles with BlueCat Linux

Value-added support and enhanced tools offer developers complete solutions

SAN JOSÉ, Calif.—September 4, 2001—LynuxWorks™ Inc., a provider of open-source and true real-time embedded solutions for the post-PC era, today announced a new series of bundle options to include service and support with enhanced tools for its popular BlueCat® Linux® operating system platform. With a strong reputation for the industry's best support and leveraging an ever-increasing advanced tool set, LynuxWorks aims to offer product and system engineers the greatest flexibility in choosing the most comprehensive and cost-effective solutions available to meet their immediate product and system design needs. Several options are immediately available.

"As embedded Linux grows in preference over other embedded operating systems, and as our own BlueCat distribution continues to gain a larger following, LynuxWorks has been listening to our customers needs," said Dr. Inder Singh, LynuxWorks CEO. "Customers have asked for more functionality, more enhanced tools and complete solutions. Our new bundle options address these needs and offer greater value to our customers by combining the very best of what we do into developer solutions. The bundles will help companies reduce time to market for new commercial products and system designs."

At the core of the bundle options is LynuxWorks BlueCat Linux 3.1. With the industry's broadest microprocessor support for embedded Linux, BlueCat supports architectures including Intel® IA-32 and XScale™ micro-architecture, MIPS, ARM® family (including Thumb® extensions), StrongARM®, PowerPC® (including PowerQUICC) and Hitachi SuperH. Developers for next generation smart devices, communications equipment and consumer products have increasingly chosen BlueCat for its stability, reliability, time-to-market benefits and overall reduced total cost of ownership.

Bundle offerings will include the BlueCat Standard, Professional Trace Bundle, Professional IDE Bundle, and Developer's Bundle. Bundles are available for numerous host/target processor combinations. All bundles include basic support with optional upgradeable tiered and priority level support packages. Quantity price discounts are available.

Bundles include:

BlueCat Standard Bundle: BlueCat 3.1, commercial license and support package for Windows or Linux host development.
Professional Trace Bundle: BlueCat 3.1, commercial license, SpyKer™ kernel trace tool and support package for Windows® or Linux host development.
Professional IDE Bundle: BlueCat 3.1, commercial license, LynuxWorks' VisualLynux™ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) or CodeWarrior™ IDE Edition and support package for Windows or Linux host development.
Developer's Bundle: BlueCat 3.1, commercial license, SpyKer kernel trace tool, VisualLynux IDE or Code Warrior IDE Edition and support package for Windows or Linux host development.

Availability

All LynuxWorks bundling options are immediately available direct from the company. LynuxWorks continues to offer a free evaluation copy of BlueCat for non-commercial and evaluation use. Additional bundles will be announced as new or updated tools become available.

About LynuxWorks' BlueCat

LynuxWorks' BlueCat is an open-source Linux, and is available as a complete solution for developers. In addition to a stable commercial version of the operating system, LynuxWorks provides a complete software development environment and tools for debugging and tuning applications. BlueCat is backed by a variety of optional support packages offering software engineering, technical support, consulting and professional services from LynuxWorks.

About LynuxWorks

LynuxWorks is a world leader in the embedded software market, providing operating systems, software development products and consulting services for the world's most successful communications, aerospace/defense, and consumer products companies. Established in 1988, the company is a founding member of the real-time operating systems (RTOS) industry, and a leading participant in the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC). LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San José, California. LynuxWorks products include the open-source BlueCat Linux and the scalable, Linux-compatible LynxOS® real-time operating system. World-class companies use LynuxWorks' products, including: 3Com, Alcatel, Boeing, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, Marconi, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NEC USA, Nortel Networks, Raytheon, TRW and Xerox.

LynuxWorks is a trademark and LynxOS and BlueCat are registered trademarks of LynuxWorks, Inc. Other brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective holders. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

LynuxWorks press contacts

Kirsten Long Director, Marketing Communications LynuxWorks, Inc. USA +1 408-979-4404	Barbara Stewart Patterson & Associates USA 480-488-6909
Hamid Mirab Managing Director EMEA LynuxWorks Ltd. United Kingdom +44 208-906-9506	Peter van der Sluijs Neesham Public Relations Europe +44 1442-879222