“CEO Jim Ready elected to board; Engineering VP Kevin Morgan
Pro-Tem Chair.”
“MontaVista, Inc., developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating
system for embedded applications, today affirmed the election of
company CEO and president Jim Ready to the board of the Embedded
Linux Consortium (ELC). Jim joins five other executives from the
embedded Linux community on the board, which heads up the ELC
membership of 89 companies, including IBM, Motorola, National
Semiconductor, Red Hat, and others.”
“Jim Ready’s embedded systems and Linux® credentials stand
out even among the impressive array of recently elected ELC board
members and the ELC membership at large. Jim is best known for
founding Ready Systems, developers of VRTX, the first widely
deployed commercial real-time operating system (RTOS). In its
twenty-year lifetime, VRTX formed the foundation for thousands of
applications. VRTX was used in industrial control, instrumentation,
networking, telecommunications, defense, and notably,
mission-critical military and civilian aviation systems. It was the
only RTOS ever to achieve FAA DO-178B flight certification.”