Tuxera
 |
|
| Private | |
| Industry | Computer software and Embedded systems |
| Founded | Finland (2008) |
| Headquarters | Espoo, Finland |
|
Key people
|
Mikko Välimäki, CEO Szabolcs Szakacsits, President and CTO |
| Website | www |
Tuxera Inc. develops and sells file systems software. Its most popular products are Tuxera NTFS and Tuxera exFAT, both available on a number of platforms including Linux, Android, QNX and macOS. Tuxera's customers include a number of consumer electronics manufacturers in mobile phones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes, automotive infotainment and storage markets. Tuxera NTFS for Mac provides read-write connectivity to Windows formatted hard drives for macOS.
The company was founded in 2008 and is currently headquartered in Espoo, Finland. Tuxera's other offices are located in Silicon Valley, Korea, Taiwan and Mainland China.
The origin of the company dates back to the open source NTFS development in the late 1990s. NTFS had been introduced in 1993 by Microsoft as the file system for Windows NT. At that time Anton Altaparmakov emerged as the lead developer and maintainer of the Linux NTFS kernel driver. Meanwhile, Szabolcs Szakacsits continued to lead a platform-independent project under the name NTFS-3G. In 2006, NTFS-3G became the first driver to gain full read and write support. Commercial activity started in 2007 and the company was founded next year. In 2009 the company signed agreements with Microsoft, which was followed by global expansion and establishing the collaboration with chipset vendors and software platform companies.
In February 2011 Tuxera joined The Linux Foundation, which was an expected step as for many years Tuxera has contributed to the Linux Kernel.
Tuxera NTFS is a performance optimized, fail-safe, fully compatible NTFS file system driver. It ships for example in smart TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, routers, NAS and other devices. It is available for Android and other Linux platforms, QNX, WinCE Series 40, Nucleus RTOS and VxWorks. Supported architectures are ARM architecture, MIPS architecture, PowerPC, SuperH and x86.
...
Wikipedia