Mountain View, CA — (press release) — MontaVista Software, Inc. is sponsoring a pair of free full-day seminars aimed at educating attendees on the use of Linux in a variety of embedded-control designs. The seminar series, titled “Linux Inside,” debuts in the Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Marriott hotel on May 31 and in La Jolla, California, on June 5, at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla.

“The Linux operating system has garnered a solid core of adherents in the desktop and server markets, and is gaining major penetration into the embedded and pervasive systems markets” says Jim Ready, MontaVista CEO and seminar keynote speaker. “Linux is giving Microsoft a run for its money on the desktop,” continues Ready. “The real battle now is in the currently fragmented embedded space — Linux presents the first ever mainstream open source embedded platform, with features that make it an ideal fit for contemporary and future embedded applications,” concludes Ready.

Topics and presentators

Overall, the seminar is intended to help developers take advantage of the robust Linux operating system to revamp embedded systems design and to significantly reduce the costs of building and deploying intelligent devices.

• Jim Ready shares his perspective on why and how developers are leading this movement.
  
• Kevin Morgan, engineering vice president at MontaVista demonstrates Linux scalability tailoring a design's size and performance.
  
• John Mehaffey, MontaVista high-availability and distributed computing architect, outlines the challenges in designing communications equipment and other high-availability systems, focusing on how Linux meets those challenges.
  
• Greg Haerr, president and founder of Century Software, and leader of the open source Microwindows project, presents a family of small footprint graphical user interfaces and graphical application program interfaces (APIs), optimized for scalability
  and portability across a variety of applications.
  
• Bill Weinberg, MontaVista marketing director, details how Linux-based host and target systems support a new paradigm for distributed/networked code generation, cross loading, debugging and deployment. Weinberg offers specifics on existing and forthcoming Linux tools and capabilities.

Complementing MontaVista staffers and open source authorities, key embedded tools vendors will present strategies and solutions available today for embedded development.

• Rob Stein, of Insignia Systems, details how Insignia's Jeode platform for Embedded and Personal Java offers a high-performance Java environment for embedded Linux.
  
• Mike Dunkle, from Applied Microsystems, discusses
  tuning and testing of embedded Linux application code.
  
• Don Lindsay, of MetroWerks, a division of Motorola Semiconductor, describes how the CodeWarrior Integrated
  Development Environment streamlines the edit/compile/debug cycle for embedded Linux applications.
  
• Jim McElroy, with I-Logix, talks about visual prototyping using design automation tools for C, C++ and Java, and an environment for embedded Linux applications.
• Jason Smith, of Computer I/O, discusses Linux-based I/O and communications devices.

Between the morning and afternoon sessions, the seminars feature independent perspectives from well-known industry professionals. The Santa Clara seminar features Rick Lehrbaum, formerly Executive VP and cofounder of Ampro and currently Executive Editor of LinuxDevices.com (“the Embedded Linux Portal”) and interim chairman of the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELEC). In LaJolla, Roy Webster, senior editor of the RTC Group, takes the podium.

In addition to the presentations, the seminar will also feature Linux-based industrial computing hardware products and representatives from Force Computer, ICS Advent, Motorola Computer Group, SBS, Ziatech and other vendors.

 
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