Metrowerks' CodeWarrior Embedded Products to Include Sun Microsystems' Jini Technology

Business Wire, Jan 25, 1999

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 1999--Metrowerks Inc., (NASDAQ:MTWKF) (TSE:MWK) (ME:MWK) a leading supplier of software development tools for desktop and embedded systems, today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Sun Microsystems to provide the Jini(tm) technology to licensees of CodeWarrior embedded tools.

The Jini technology will be available as part of CodeWarrior Embedded Systems products for MIPS(R), PowerPC(tm), DSP56800, M-CORE(tm), SH, x86, ColdFire(tm) and 68K processors.

Jini is new technology, announced today, from Sun Microsystems designed to simplify the configuration and access of hardware devices and software services on a network. Jini creates a homogeneous, Java technology-centric view of the network, which makes it possible to add new services or devices to networks with no configuration requirements. It also makes it possible to execute new services without pre-installing software on client machines.

Metrowerks will be the first embedded development tools vendor to license Jini for research and development use and deployment.

"Adding Jini technology to CodeWarrior provides embedded systems developers with a very powerful set of tools with which to develop and deploy Jini-enabled consumer devices," said Mike Clary, general manager, Jini technology, Sun Microsystems. "Metrowerks has a great track record of providing powerful, easy-to-use, state-of-the-art embedded tool technology and platform independent technology such as Java and now Jini."

"As the client-server model migrates to the consumer electronics markets, technologies such as Jini provide an excellent opportunity for the connection and management of discrete, heterogeneous consumer devices," said Greg Galanos, president and chief technology officer, Metrowerks. "We are pleased to make Jini available with our Java tools and our embedded products, thus enhancing developer tools for a connected world."

Availability

The Jini technology will be made available as part of each new revision of CodeWarrior Embedded Products as they become available.

About Metrowerks

Founded in 1985, Metrowerks develops, markets and supports CodeWarrior software development solutions for a number of operating systems targeting the most popular microprocessors. Intended for use for embedded systems or desktop computers, the cross-platform compilers support C, C , Java and Pascal, and allow programmers to build applications from one unique Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Metrowerks' CodeWarrior products are used by more than 100,000 registered users in 75 countries. For more information, please visit the Metrowerks Web site at http://www.metrowerks.com.

Metrowerks, the Metrowerks logo and CodeWarrior are registered trademarks of Metrowerks Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Enterprise, Solaris Operating Environment, Ultra, StorEdge, HotJava and "The Network Is The Computer" are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that Involve risks and uncertainties, including successful and timely development of the product and customer acceptance of the product.