Sunnyvale, CA — (press release exerpt)– MontaVista Software Inc., and Master Integrated Appliances Co., Ltd. (MasterIA) have joined forces to distribute and support MontaVista Software products in Taiwan.

Under the terms of the agreement, MasterIA will distribute the full range of MontaVista solutions, including MontaVista Linux, MontaVista High Availability Framework, VisualAge Micro Edition for MontaVista Linux, Qt/Embedded for MontaVista Linux and MontaVista Graphics. MasterIA will also provide technical support for embedded developers in Taiwan.

“Taiwan is an important market and distributors such as MasterIA will accelerate the penetration of MontaVista Linux among embedded developers in Asia,” said Raymond Mak, vice president of Asia Pacific sales for MontaVista. “MasterIA has the required resources, including experienced and talented embedded Linux engineers, to provide excellent product support.”

MasterIA was founded in January 2000 and is currently focused on the information appliances market. With this new partnership, MasterIA will also be able to aggressively expand into the Taiwanese telecom and datacom arenas. MontaVista has targeted these three markets as having the most potential for embedded Linux.

 
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