James Ready

For the Ontarian dollar-beer, see James Ready (beer)

James "Jim" Ready is a businessman and technologist. His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

Ready received his BA from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1971 and his MA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976.

Ready was founder and President of Hunter & Ready beginning in 1980, which merged with CardTools in 1986 to become Ready Systems. Ready Systems merged with Microtec Research in 1993, went public in 1994, and was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 1995. Ready served as chief technical officer at Microtec and Mentor until he left in 1999 to found MontaVista Software. Jim served as founder and CEO of MontaVista until June 5, 2006 when the role of CEO was taken over by Thomas F. Kelly. Jim switched to the role of CTO of MontaVista. After the acquisition by Cavium Networks, Jim became CTO of MontaVista, now a wholly owned subsidiary. As of mid-2012, Jim is Chief Technology Advisor at Cadence Design Systems.

James Ready (beer)

James Ready Brewing Co. is a Canadian beer brand brewed at Moosehead Brewery. The brand has five types of lagers, each with a varying alcohol by volume value. These five types of beer from lightest to darkest are the James Ready Lager, the James Ready Light, the James Ready Original Ale, the James Ready 5.5, and the James Ready 6.0.

History

Ready Brewery was originally founded by James Ready in Saint John, a man from Scotland. Moosehead was founded by the Oland family in Nova Scotia. Moosehead Brewery's original founders, Susannah and John Oland, first named the brewery The Army and Navy Brewery, as most of their customers were soldiers. Two fires and one Halifax Harbour Explosion later, the Oland sons relocated Moosehead from Halifax to Saint John, buying the already established Ready Brewery and branding it as Moosehead Brewery by 1931. Now Canada's oldest brewery, Moosehead Brewery is operated by descendants of the Oland family.

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