Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. Partners with Lineo, Inc and Ports RapidRMA Real-Time Tool Suite to the LINUX Operating System

Alameda, California, April 10, 2001. Tri-Pacific Software, Inc., premier provider of real-time scheduling solutions to the software industry, announced today its new partnership with Lineo, Inc., provider of real-time Linux-based embedded systems. Tri-Pacific Software fulfills the needs of real-time embedded systems developers building real-time, safety critical and embedded systems applications including telecommunications, automotive control, avionics, defense electronics, wireless and satellite communications, and manufacturing.

According to Tri-Pacific Software President, Peter Kortmann, “Tri-Pacific has ported its timing and schedulability tool suite, RapidRMA, to the Linux platform in order to meet the increasing demand of real-time engineers for Linux solutions. This partnership brings a proven robust solution for timing and schedulability to the embedded Linux market place”. The combination of Embedix SDK and Tri-Pacific's RapidRMA provides Linux engineers with the necessary tools for designing and validating timing requirements for real-time systems.

RapidRMA's new LTT Import trace feature enables engineers and system architects utilizing Linux to collect timing data from a Lineo Embedix target. This data is then used to construct a candidate model on which to conduct timing and schedulability analysis. The RapidRMA's interface to the LTT trace tool benefits Embedix users by providing a means to easily validate QoS requirements. “Lineo is pleased to collaborate with Tri-Pacific Software to fulfill our customers' real-time needs,” said Bryan Sparks, CEO, Lineo, Inc. “The combination of RapidRMA with Lineo Embedix SDK will make it easier for customers to obtain pre-emptive, deterministic, hard real-time solutions from one place.”

The grouping of Lineo's Embedix and Tri-Pacific's RapidRMA benefits the development of real-time applications by identifying and eliminating costly “timing problems” (thereby decreasing cost and time to market), insuring optimal performance and providing predictable - deterministic product development. Ben Watson, Tri-Pacific Software's V.P. of Product Development, contends that, “...as the speed with which new technologies are being introduced — increases, time to market has decreased — making (expensive) ‘trial and error’ software development a thing of the past. Real-time engineers need new tools to build today's embedded and distributed architectures. RapidRMA and Embedix fulfills that need and bring predictability to the real-time engineer's solution set.”

Lineo, the number one embedded Linux provider, and Tri-Pacific Software, provider of real-time engineering solutions will be exhibiting at the upcoming conference, The Embedded Systems Conference San Francisco 2001 from April 10–12.

About Lineo, Inc.

Lineo, Inc. provides embedded systems, real time and high availability solutions that include software, hardware reference designs and professional services. Lineo's solutions allow OEMs to create devices and systems that interact with the Internet while helping OEMs to reduce system requirements, per-unit costs and time-to-market. The company's key product lines include: Embedix™ (embedded Linux system software), uClinux™ (embedded Linux for MMU-less processors), SecureEdge™ (Linux-based Internet appliances including Internet routers, networked attached storage and firewalls), RTXC™ (general purpose and DSP real-time operating system),BeaconSuite™ (x86 development toolkit) and Availix™ (mission-critical high availability Linux cluster solutions). Contact Lineo at www.lineo.com, via e-mail to info@lineo.com or by calling 801-426-5001.

About Tri-Pacific Software, Inc.

Tri-Pacific Software, Inc. Making Real-Time a Reality™ is the premier provider of real-time scheduling solutions to the software industry. The company fulfills the needs of real-time embedded and safety critical systems in a variety of applications, including: medical devices, automotive control, telecommunications, wireless applications, embedded internet, real-time internet, avionics, defense electronics, networking, manufacturing, and real-time CORBA. Company headquarters is in Alameda, CA. Tri-Pacific also has a sales and product development office in Dallas, TX. Contact Tri-Pacific Software at www.tripac.com or by calling 510-814-1770.