Enea Expands and Strengthens Multicore Strategy with Enhanced Linux Offering

Enea Expands and Strengthens Multicore Strategy with Enhanced Linux
Offering

Leading Vendor will now have Comprehensive Multicore Offering Featuring
Platforms based on RTOS, Linux, DSP RTOS, and System Level Development
Tools. 

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 2, 2011 - Enea has recently strengthened and
enhanced its Linux offering to better serve its current and future
customers who are building heterogeneous multicore systems.  The two
initial pieces of this strategy include an alliance with leading
independent Linux vendor Timesys and the joining of the Linux
Foundation.        

Strategic Agreement with Timesys

The company has entered into a strategic alliance with Timesys whereby
Enea will not only be a reseller of the LinuxLink development
environment, but will also use that technology to build value added
platforms that combine Linux and Enea's own proprietary technology.  Now
Enea can better support developers who are looking to deploy realtime
operating systems (RTOS), Linux and bare metal environments on the same
multicore processor to achieve the optimum blend of performance,
manageability and programmability. 

Breadth and Depth of Enea's Support for Linux

Enea has long track record of supporting and delivering Linux to
customers.  In 2007, Enea acquired QiValue, a leading northern European
supplier of Linux consulting services.  QiValue later evolved into the
Enea Linux Competence Center (ELCC) and became the go-to source for
Linux expertise in the region.  In 2009, the ELCC released the Enea
Linux Project Framework, a lightweight Linux development and
configuration environment designed to jumpstart Linux projects.  In the
spring of 2010 Enea announced a strategic agreement with Netlogic to
deliver an integrated Linux build and configuration environment
including Linux technical support for the multicore XLR, XLS, and XLP
processors.  That environment is available today.

Enea's latest Linux consulting offering is the Enea Android Competence
center which focuses on the platform level of Android.  The Enea Android
Competence Center has, in a short time, established itself as a top
supplier of Android platform level services, training and knowledge. 
The Center's blog (www.androidenea.com (http://www.androidenea.com/)) is
widely read for its deep technical knowledge and creative application
demonstrations. 

Extensive Portfolio of Software Complementary to Linux

Enea support of Linux goes beyond services and frameworks to a number of
technologies complementary to Linux including the Enea Hypervisor,
designed to permit the coexistence of Linux and the Enea OSE RTOS on
multicore processors; Enea LINX for Linux, an open source and
high-performance inter-process communication technology; and Enea dSPEED
for managing multicore DSPs and DSP clusters.  In addition, several Enea
products are designed to work with Linux out of the box including Enea
Element, middleware which provides high-availability and application
development services for mission critical and communications
applications; Polyhedra, the company's fault-tolerant relational
database management system and the Enea Netbricks family of NGN telecom
and signalling protocols.                   

Joins Linux Foundation

In addition to the Timesys partnership Enea is joining the Linux
Foundation.  As a result, Enea will be better able to serve its current
and future customers by contributing to improvements in the code base
especially as they pertain to telecom and embedded systems where the
company has over 42 years of experience.  Also, Enea expects to be
better able to influence the future direction of Linux though
participation in technical projects, workgroups and other forums within
the organization. 

The Future

As Enea looks to its future, the company is now able to offer a more
complete package of software and services to customers who wish to
source their Linux from a well-established, global and independent
vendor.  However and perhaps more importantly, Enea now has the building
blocks to deploy an entire system solution featuring Linux, RTOS and
bare metal operating environments.  The company expects to deliver
integrated solutions-oriented platforms to address the complexity
inherent in the transition to, and programming of, multicore
processors.  Enea will work closely with its leading semiconductor
vendor partners to deliver enhanced Linux Support Packages, improved
ease of use, and faster time to market.

For more information

Nordic:
Catharina Paulcén, VP Corporate Communications
Phone: 46 8 507 140 00 or email:
catharina.paulcen@enea.com (catharina.paulcen@enea.com)

North America
Chris Lanfear, Director of Global Marcom
Phone: 1 617 244 9433 or email:
chris.lanfear@enea.com (chris.lanfear@enea.com)

Asia Pacific:
Fredrik Sjöholm, Vice President of Software Sales Asia
Phone: +46 8 507 140 00 or email:
fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com (fredrik.sjoholm@enea.com)

Europe:
Mia Åkerström, Marketing Communications, EMEA
Phone: +46 8 507 140 24 or email:
mia.akerstrom@enea.com (mia.akerstrom@enea.com)