Real-time Ada development tools designed to provide stringent reliability and hard real-time requirements for military and avionics industries

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., December 28, 2004—LynuxWorks™ Inc. today announced support for the newly released version of the IBM Rational® Ada programming environment, Apex 4.4.0, with its LynxOS® real-time operating system (RTOS) and LynxOS-178, a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) operating system that delivers the security and real-time responsiveness needed for safety-critical systems.

The new Rational Apex development environment for real-time, embedded Ada language applications was created to meet the stringent reliability requirements of developers in the military and avionics industries. The development environment features an extensive family of production-quality Ada compilers, cross-compilers, and related tools to allow programmers to debug, understand, tune, and deliver code. The new Apex 4.4.0 release represents state-of-the-art innovation in Ada performance, functionality, and development environments.

"LynxOS and LynxOS-178 support IBM Rational's Apex product for a simple reason—we want to continue the tremendous momentum we've established in the avionics and military markets," said Bob Morris, vice president of sales and marketing, LynuxWorks. "We are proud to have been selected for two of the three third-party RTOSes that the new Rational Embedded Ada Developer package now supports."

Availability

LynxOS and LynxOS-178 with support for Rational IBM Apex 4.4.0 are available immediately.

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 technology leader in the real-time operating systems (RTOS) industry, and a founding member of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC). LynuxWorks' headquarters are located in San José, California.

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