| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software and Embedded systems |
| Founded | Finland (2008) |
| Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
| Key people | Mikko Välimäki, CEO Szabolcs Szakacsits, President and CTO |
| Website | www.tuxera.com |
Tuxera Inc. is a Finnish company specialized in developing file systems' software, whose most widely deployed commercial software is "Tuxera NTFS for Mac".
It was founded in 2008 by Szabolcs Szakacsits, current President and CTO.
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The origin of the company comes from open source Linux NTFS drivers. NTFS had been introduced in 1993 by Microsoft, as the file system for Windows NT. In 1999 Anton Altaparmakov started developing an NTFS driver for Linux. This open source project saw a great amount of evolution and became very popular.
The NTFS-3G era began in 2006 when Szabolcs Szakacsits took the leadership of a new initiative to develop NTFS open source drivers for any possible platform.
When NTFS-based operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Vista) became more popular and widespread, a demand for commercially tailored versions of NTFS-3G grew. Then, in September 2008 Szakacsits decided to start a company called NTFS-3G Technology Ltd to commercialize the new versions of the driver.
In 2009 the company changed its name to Tuxera, which expresses the development for a wider range of platforms and file systems. In August Tuxera signed IPR and commercial agreements with Microsoft to develop exFAT drivers.
In January 2010 Tuxera announced itself as the first company to develop an NTFS file system for Windows CE.[1] That year the company opened a US office in Sunnyvale, California.
In September 2010 Tuxera announced a partnership with PLX Technology, and started offering the Tuxera File System Suite, which includes Tuxera NTFS, exFAT and HFS+.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac is a modified version of NTFS-3G, which allows Mac OS X computers to read and write NTFS partitions. By default, Mac OS X provides only read-only access to NTFS partitions. The current version is 2011.4.2 which was been released in August 2011. The software has full support for the new 64-bit kernels, including Mac OS X Lion.
It is an optimized read/write NTFS driver for Linux (including Android and MeeGo) and several other platforms (Bada, Series 40, Nucleus RTOS, QNX, VxWorks, ThreadX, WinCE). It works in many architectures as well: ARM architecture, MIPS architecture, PowerPC, SuperH and x86.
It is the original free-software "community edition" driver used widely in GNU/Linux distributions, including Fedora, Ubuntu, and others.
It is the first commercially available driver for exFAT, product of an exclusive agreement with Microsoft.
Tuxera has partnerships with several chipset manufacturers, including Cavium Networks, Freescale, Marvell, Mediatek, NXP Semiconductors, and PLX Technology.