ESC, San Jose, CA — (press release) — Hewlett-Packard Company announced today that Linux support has been added for its Chai Appliance Platform, a suite of integrated software components for creating Internet-enabled information appliances. Developers using Linux can effortlessly use the Chai Appliance Platform, conserving their resources for software development activities specific to the type of… device they are building. Linux now joins Microsoft's Pocket PC (Windows CE 3.0) as a source code reference platform for the Chai Appliance Platform.

“Embedded developers are embracing Linux in ever-increasing numbers, and we want to make it as easy as possible for them to use the Chai Appliance Platform to build their products,” said William Woo, general manager of HP's Embedded Software Operation. “We've also added support for standards-based tools supplied by third parties.”

The power, stability and modular structure of Linux have contributed to the success of the open-source operating system with the embedded developer community.

The Chai Appliance Platform is an integrated suite of software products designed to power the next generation of memory-constrained, intelligent Internet appliances. The embedded software platform extends e-services from enterprise systems to intelligent appliances, and provides device manufacturers with more capabilities, including customization, allowing products to get to market faster and at a lower cost.

A key component of the Chai Appliance Platform is the HP ChaiVM, a small-footprint, scalable environment for running Java applications on intelligent devices. ChaiVM offers superior Java application performance using the HP TurboChai compiler. It also provides the smallest memory footprint using the HP ChaiFreezeDry technology, which reduces the memory needed to support Java applications by up to 90 percent. By conserving memory, appliances using HP technology can be manufactured less expensively, without sacrificing functional or performance capabilities.

Other components of the platform include the ChaiServer embedded Web-based application server, connectivity to e-services, device manageability via the HP OpenView Network Node Manager, a mobile database, the ChaiFarer XML microbrowser, a toolkit for creating graphical displays, and standards-based spontaneous networking.

 
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