TimeSys Corp. (Pittsburgh, PA) announced that its embedded Linux and Java design wins nearly doubled between the first and second half of 2002, and continued to grow at that rate during the first quarter of 2003 (Q1 2003). Additionally, the company said that during Q1 2003 it significantly expanded its product line and grew the number and type of its strategic partnerships with hardware and system vendors… and value-added resellers.

Software companies typically measure design-wins based on the sale of software development kits (SDKs) to companies developing products and applications based on their products. According to TimeSys, its Linux and Java SDKs are now being used to develop products ranging from high-end telecommunications infrastructure equipment such as layer 2 Gigabit Ethernet switches, consumer electronics devices such as MPEG4 digital network cameras, automotive informatics applications such as in-car navigation, industrial control applications including power generation turbine control and automated food processing equipment, and military/aerospace applications such as command, control and communications systems, air traffic control systems and military robotics. New design wins came from customers ranging from start up companies to large, established multinational corporations such as Hitachi High-Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Sanyo Electric, and Toshiba, the company said.

TimeSys also noted the introduction of three new products during Q1 2003: ; TimeSys Linux 4.0, an upgrade to the company's flagship embedded Linux distribution; TimeStorm 2.0, an enhanced integrated development environment for C/C++/Java development for embedded Linux, powered by Eclipse Technology; and JTime for Java, which TimeSys characterizes as “the industry's first Sun-certified Real-Time Specification for Java-compliant (RTSJ) Java Virtual Machine (JVM).”

Additionally, TimeSys said that during Q1 2003 it formed strategic partnerships with hardware and system vendors SuperH, Themis Computers, Artysen, and ITE, and estabished distribution partnerships with value-added resellers Omnisoft, Amirix, Martan, and Integrys.

Other key Q1 milestones were said to include: adding e-commerce capabilities to its website; and releasing of numerous additional SDKs, bringing the total to more than 65 TimeSys Linux SDKs — “a 300% growth over last year's SDK offering.”

 
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