SYSGO AG, the leading European provider of embedded system software, teams up with its French partner AP Embedded Solutions to satisfy the requirements of the French and Southern Europe market. The acquisition is part of the company’s growth strategy for 2006. With the products PikeOS and ELinOS as well as consulting, support and engineering services, SYSGO covers market demands for short time to market and cost efficient embedded systems development. “We see increasing demands for our “product plus service” approach in the fields of embedded systems development. "Our customers are more and more involved in Pan European and especially Franco-German projects. Local presence in France has become a must," Knut Degen, CEO of SYSGO, explains. “Together we can finally offer a full scale European product and service solution,” adds Bruno Privat, Commercial Director of APES.

Mainz, Germany – February 14, 2006: SYSGO AG, a leading European provider of embedded system software, expects revenues to grow by 50 percent in 2006. The company’s recent expansion into France confirms SYSGO’s successful growth strategy and its European focus. Revenue growth goes hand in hand with an increased headcount: To support its ambitious growth targets, SYSGO is planning to increase its number of employees by 50 percent in 2006.
The company’s growth is fuelled by the broad demand for its product PikeOS, a strategic virtualisation solution launched in February 2005. PikeOS allows developers of embedded systems to integrate several applications or operating systems from different vendors on one single platform and controls the communication of all components.

SYSGO announced a first PikeOS order from a leading Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer. The project goal is the coexistance of Linux and the Japanese operating system ITRON on one CPU. Within this project PikeOS is also ported to the MIPS processor. The first prototypes are available by the end of this year.

SYSGO today announced version 1.3 of PikeOS, the companies’ operating system virtualization platform. PikeOS provides operating system APIs for Linux, POSIX, OSEK, Ada, (Real-Time-) Java and ITRON that can run simultaneously on one single CPU in a secure environment. PikeOS is available for PowerPC, x86, ARM und MIPS architectures and can be easily adapted to other hardware platforms.

SYSGO AG today announced that it has become an Associate Member of the Automotive Open Systems Architecture (AUTOSAR) alliance. SYSGO will provide AUTOSAR-compliant interfaces to its PikeOS real time operating system.

SYSGO announces the launch of a new ELinOS version for October. ELinOS has been worked over radically and now fully supports the virtualisation platform PikeOS. Thus, it offers a long-term and reliable foundation for the use of Linux in embedded systems and safety-critical applications.

SYSGO opens a new office in Munich to offer a better service to the Southern German customers and companies. The new Key Account Manager Hans-Werner Hartwig is responsible the Embedded Software Sale and Support to Siemens, working from Oberpfaffenhofen office near Munich, since August 1, 2005.

Rheinmetall Defence Electronics (RDE) transfers delivery and certification of the basis software for cargo compartment electronics of Airbus A400 M to SYSGO AG. Besides the delivery of the operating system the volume of the order includes especially the design of software and documents for the certification of the so-called Loadmaster Control system according to standard DO-178B for safety critical applications.