Atlanta, GA — (press release excerpt) — Concurrent Computer Corporation's Real-Time Division, a leading provider of real-time and Video-On-Demand products, today announced an agreement with MontaVista Software to enhance and distribute MontaVista's Hard Hat Linux… operating system in support of Concurrent's real-time application solutions.

Concurrent chose MontaVista Software because its hard real-time preemptible kernel offers standard Linux code, APIs and programming models, and provides a vast improvement in application response compared to a standard Linux operating environment. In addition, MontaVista's design approach is consistent with Concurrent's and the industry's traditional real-time UNIX implementations and provides superior determinism in complex real-time applications that include networking and file system operation.

Concurrent's distribution of Hard Hat Linux will be further enhanced by Concurrent to include real-time features specifically needed for its high-performance data acquisition and simulation market solutions. These improvements will make Hard Hat Linux comparable with Concurrent's PowerMAX OS real-time UNIX-based operating system in real-time response. Future versions will continue to track the most current Linux standard together with MontaVista. The introduction of Hard Hat Linux from Concurrent will offer Concurrent real-time users an open alternative to PowerMAX OS.

“The MontaVista real-time strategy is to drive native real-time improvements in Linux,” explained James Ready, president and CEO of MontaVista software and RTOS industry pioneer. “Real-time capability had been the final barrier to comprehensive adoption of Linux throughout the embedded systems industry. Since we launched MontaVista's hard real-time, fully preemptible kernel technology last September, it has advanced Linux responsiveness to match proprietary embedded kernels. More importantly to our customers, it does so while still providing all the benefits of open source, including rapid development and royalty-free deployment.”

Hard Hat Linux from Concurrent will feature a native Linux development environment that includes Concurrent's powerful real-time GUI development tools — the NightView multi-language debugger, the NightTrace analyzer, the NightSim real-time scheduler, and the NightProbe data monitor. Concurrent tools offer more robust, real-time features than the standard GNU tool set. Their unique non-intrusive design allows users to debug and monitor applications with minimum impact on real-time performance.

 
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