Lindon, UTAH — (company press release) — Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, today announced an agreement to acquire INUP, a leading provider of fault tolerant Linux-based clustering solutions for embedded devices. INUP technology targets high availability CompactPCI (cPCI) and Linux-based clusters that need hot-swapping functionality and redundancy.

“This acquisition by Lineo rounds out Lineo's technology offering, providing embedded Linux support for the complete range of embedded devices from tiny microprocessors to large, single-purpose systems. INUP customers are found in markets such as: finance, ISPs, and industrial control” said Bryan Sparks, CEO of Lineo, Inc. “With this acquisition of INUP, Lineo now provides Linux solutions for the full spectrum of embedded devices,” continued Sparks. “Lineo is paving the way for OEM developers to be able to put Linux anywhere their customers need it.”

“This alliance will enable us to take advantage of the different research and development dynamics and competencies each of our companies has to
offer,” said Hugo Delchini, CEO of INUP. “It also provides complementary resources for expanding our high availability technology into world-wide
markets.”

INUP is headquartered in Saint-Ouen, France. As with Lineo's other five acquisitions, this office will remain intact, providing additional resources for Lineo's sales, development and marketing departments. With these two additional acquisitions, Lineo now has offices in: Australia, Canada, France, Japan, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the USA.

About Lineo, Inc. (www.lineo.com)

Lineo, Inc., a leading developer of embedded Linux system software, develops, markets and sells embedded Linux system software and applications that provide OEMs and consumers with simple, low-cost software for interacting with the Internet via embedded devices. Lineo owns the Embedix product family including Embedix Linux, Embedix SDK and Embedix Browser.

About INUP (www.inup.com)

INUP provides a Linux-based clustering software package for CompactPCI, providing solutions for high availability, high performances, high reliability and scalability. The INUP Software package contains technology offering a broad range of functionality, such as: hot swap, load balancing, and centralized system administration. INUP products provide fault tolerance for integrated architecture in the CompactPCI frame. This allows communication between multiple processors through the PCI backplane bus with higher bandwidth than Ethernet networks. Within the frame, a server card distributes the workload to all processors cards (up to 7 per CompactPCI frame).

 
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