Lindon, UT — (press release) — Lineo today announced the expansion of its professional services group to provide solutions for embedded OEM developers. The enhanced professional services division provides OEMs with the assistance necessary to successfully bring embedded products to market sooner, such as: solution design assistance, porting of legacy RTOS applications, developing board support packages,… driver development and kernel customization. This group's new responsibilities also include Lineo Embedded Linux Consulting services and Lineo Design Labs.

Pradyumna Sant, segment marketing manager for Hitachi, a Lineo partner, said: “Lineo Professional Services adds tremendous value for OEMs developing embedded devices. We feel that a valuable component of Hitachi's future is the engineering expertise Lineo provides because it allows quicker time-to-market which is necessary for success in the embedded market.”

Nathan Hatch, senior VP and general manager of the professional services group at Lineo, said: “The window of opportunity is smaller than ever for device manufacturers to be the first to market with a new idea. By providing premier custom engineering assistance, Lineo makes sure that OEMs are able to get their devices to the market ahead of their competitors at the lowest cost.”

Lineo Embedded Linux Consulting is a collection of custom consulting services designed to assist hardware OEMs through the design phase to get their devices running in the shortest time possible. It includes training, consulting, analysis and engineering resources to quickly move an OEM through the development cycle in developing an embedded solution. The Lineo professional services division has resources around the globe enabling Lineo to provide local-language support for customers, regardless of which hemisphere or time zone the customer resides in.

 
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