Motorola's investment accelerates Linux through software development and speeds time to market for embedded computing devices

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., April 10, 2000—Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc., a leader in embedded Linux software solutions, announced that Motorola Computer Group (MCG) (NYSE:MOT), the world's leading supplier of embedded computing platforms for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) has made a minority investment in its company. This is the second investment Motorola has made in Lynx within the past two years.

Lynx will target this investment to accelerate the development of their industry leading Lynx product family. This includes the Linux-compatible LynxOS® real-time operating system (RTOS) that is built on a scalable, standards-based architecture, and the open-source BlueCat™ Linux. These products will enable Motorola and others in communications-focused industries to build complex, highly reliable, intelligent systems for their products. One of the key technologies accelerated by this investment is a high-availability platform used across many telecommunications segments including cellular infrastructure, data communications and the Internet.

"Motorola is extremely pleased that Lynx has chosen our high availability and embedded computer products as reference platforms for its BlueCat Linux offering," said John Hughes, vice president and director, Telecommunications Business, Motorola Computer Group. "We believe that our customers will appreciate the significant improvement in time to market afforded by the Lynx embedded Linux initiative."

"Motorola has been a key customer and investor in Lynx, and as such, continues to provide the impetus to move quickly to develop advanced embedded Linux technology for the communications market," remarked Dr. Inder Singh, Lynx Chairman and CEO. "In addition, Lynx has a strong commitment to the PowerPC® CPU architecture, the CompactPCI platform and Motorola's embedded board and system products, which are widely used as the hardware platform by major customers of Lynx for their real-time applications."

Long-term relationship

In recent years, Motorola has selected the Lynx embedded software platform for several products in its rapidly expanding communications business. These projects standardized on LynxOS because of its stability, high reliability, scalability, deterministic performance, and its robust support for large complex applications.

LynxOS has, from its inception, supported the popular 32-bit microprocessors produced by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS), including members of the popular embedded "workhorse" 68K family, the high performance PowerPC family of RISC processors, the high integration PowerQUICC devices (MPC8xx) and the PowerQUICCII for communications and portable device applications.

The same Motorola processors, in addition to finding their way into a variety of proprietary embedded applications, are also featured in customized and standards-based board- and system-level products from MCG. These board- and system-level platforms such as Motorola's award-winning high availability CPX8216, host an array of mission critical applications, including those in telecommunications infrastructure, storage, industrial control and military/aerospace.

About Lynx Real-Time Systems

Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc. is the leader in embedded Linux and the pre-eminent developer and supplier of operating system software for reliable and high-performance embedded applications. Lynx products support industry standards in communications, avionics, automotive, office automation and process control systems worldwide, enabling customers to leverage their investments in software and education. The Lynx offerings include: the Lynx product family that supports both the open source BlueCat Linux and LynxOS real-time operating system; software frameworks for high-availability systems; development tools and technical support worldwide.

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