Sunnyvale, CA– (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. today announced that it has accepted an invitation to serve on the board of directors of eclipse.org. This prestigious open source community develops the Eclipse Platform, an integrated development framework designed to allow easy interoperability between different software solutions. MontaVista Software will be represented on the Eclipse board by its CEO and president, and embedded industry pioneer, Jim Ready.

MontaVista Software is developing a common and integrated development environment built on Eclipse-powered technology. The company plans to ship WebSphere Studio Device Developer as part of the company¹s Java? product offering in the next Java product release, which will be based on Eclipse technology. MontaVista Software¹s Java customers will be offered support for Eclipse and WebSphere Studio, a plug and play integrated developer environment, with the full support for all of the current Java developer tools available under VisualAge Micro Edition for MontaVista Linux. This new open standard development environment will work across multiple development platforms, including Linux, Solaris, and Windows, allowing all developers on a project to share the same toolset, irrespective of their development host. The advantage of such an open development environment, powered by Eclipse, is that tools from different vendors can work together seamlessly, allowing developers to choose the best tools available to meet their project needs.

 
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