Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Metrowerks Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 October 2004
Subscription model complements licence pricing
Metrowerks is scoring with its customers in embedded Linux development by offering flexible pricing and less risk, according to the company
Thanks to the comprehensive and systematic way in which it has tackled the Embedded Linux OS development market, Metrowerks Corp is reporting considerable success. The company believes its users are getting an edge in creating simplified products, faster, due in no small part to its price flexibility and fully maintained board support packages - not to mention the feature sets in its end-to-end development solutions.
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'The quality, breadth and integrated nature of Metrowerks' offerings position the company as one of the early leaders in the embedded Linux development solutions market', said Chris Lanfear, embedded software Group Director for Venture Development Corp.
'Metrowerks provides the kind of single-source, comprehensive offerings that are fuelling the rapid adoption of Linux technology throughout embedded markets'.
This approach is paying off in the marketplace, where more than 100 customers now use Metrowerks Linux OS development technologies and services, including world-class companies in the wireless, transportation and network communications industries.
Metrowerks now complements its traditional licence-based pricing with flexible subscription models for its comprehensive line of embedded Linux technology development tools, including Metrowerks CodeWarrior development suites that run on Linux hosts and support development for a variety of leading semiconductor architectures.
The subscription model provides broader development support to Metrowerks customers, spreads costs over time and lowers risk by limiting the up-front commitment involved with adopting embedded Linux technology.
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'This pricing model will further foster the adoption of Linux across embedded markets, and position Metrowerks as an attractive resource for companies looking to incorporate Linux technology into their product designs', said Matt Harris, President and CEO, Metrowerks.
Subscription pricing for Metrowerks embedded Linux development technologies will be available from 1st November 2004.
By offering a single source for development, run control, code analysis and development tools, as well as hardware, software, services and commercial Linux distributions, Metrowerks is bringing professional quality and reliability to embedded Linux markets.
The company supports developers throughout the embedded Linux development process, from board bring-up and kernel-level debugging to driver development and application creation - all within a Linux OS development environment.
For developers, this single source strategy delivers turnkey development capabilities for an out-of-the-box experience that speeds time to market and provides a unified development toolchain that allows managed collaboration for entire engineering organisations.
Metrowerks' approach to Linux development has established a track record of innovation and 'industry firsts'.
The company was a leader in offering non-GDB-based environments (Gnu debugger) to address development tasks from device driver development to application creation.
The company is also among the limited number of companies providing tools that support the creation of a Linux kernel and facilitate kernel-level debugging, driver development and application development tasks.
Metrowerks also collaborated with Enea Embedded Technology to help the company deliver the first integrated software platform for telecomms and datacomms systems.
Metrowerks and Enea offer a seamless link between the Linux OS and the Enea OSE real-time operating system (RTOS), enabling original equipment manufacturers to deploy and distribute fault-tolerant, high-availability software across systems utilising multiple, heterogeneous processors and DSPs.
Freescale Semiconductor, the parent company of Metrowerks, understands the value that embedded Linux technology offers its customers.
As a result, Freescale engineers work closely with Metrowerks to ensure that Freescale customers have world-class tools and BSPs customised for its processors.
Metrowerks offers the most comprehensive Linux OS development support for Freescale platforms in the industry.
Several leading Freescale architectures are shipped with Metrowerks BSPs already pre-flashed, helping customers to simplify development and speed time to market.
Metrowerks offers freely downloadable BSPs for Freescale's MCF5272/5282 and i.MX architectures, as well as for the following Freescale platforms containing PowerPC cores: MPC5200, MPC74xx, PowerQUICC I, PowerQUICC II and PowerQUICC III.
Additionally, Metrowerks sells CodeWarrior suites for Linux OS hosted development environments that support Freescale's i.MX and ColdFire architectures and the PowerPC architecture, enabling Freescale customers in the industrial controls, wireless and networking equipment industries to assimilate Linux into next generation products.
Metrowerks has an established history of supporting the open source development community by contributing to industry standard organisations.
Metrowerks executives have served in leadership capacities with the Embedded Linux Consortium.
Also, Metrowerks is an active member of the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF), an industry group focused on the advancement of Linux technology as an open source platform for consumer electronics devices.
Five Metrowerks engineers sit on CELF working groups.
Metrowerks also plans to soon join the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux technology by enterprise companies.
(Updated by CR, May 2007)
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