LynuxWorks Inc. has announced that it has doubled its presence in the Japanese market by adding JEPICO Corporation, a Japanese embedded hardware supplier based in Tokyo, to its distributor network. JEPICO will offer the full LynuxWorks product line, including BlueCat Embedded Linux, LynxOS, LynxOS-178 RTOS and LynxSecure, to its growing military and aerospace customer base.
For LynuxWorks, the distributorship will help it further penetrate the burgeoning Japanese embedded electronics market. According to an October 2005 report from analyst firm Fuji Keizai titled "Market Research for Embedded Electronic Systems," the Japanese embedded market will grow 23.5 percent between 2004 and 2007.
For JEPICO, this collaboration gives the company the opportunity to offer complementary software products that provide its customer base a complete hardware/software turnkey solution.
"Teaming up with one of the best-known military and aerospace suppliers in Japan is a victory for our customers -- and theirs," said Bosco Chan, sales director for Asia Pacific and Japan at LynuxWorks. "JEPICO's commitment to outfitting its customers with complete solutions of superior quality mirrors LynuxWorks' commitment to the same. We believe this will be a very successful and mutually beneficial relationship."
"We've seen a significant increase in demand among our military and aerospace customers for real-time and safety-critical operating systems, and are looking forward to meeting that demand with LynuxWorks' solutions," said Chimasa Fukushima, general manager of Sales Department 1 at JEPICO. "We are confident that our customers will find LynuxWorks' offerings to be extremely effective in the reduction of cost and time-to-market in their valuable design efforts."
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