• Wind River announced that it is has joined the COMET partnership program to collaborate and deliver integrated platform-based telematics solutions that help end-users accelerate the development of automotive devices.
• Wind River's participation in the COMET program signifies its commitment to the automotive industry.
• By working with other key partners in the COMET program, Wind River can continue to build and deliver effective solutions, such as WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment.

ALAMEDA, Calif.--October 27, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced its membership in the Community Enabling Telematics (COMET™) partnership program, a cooperative association launched by Renesas Technology America, Inc. COMET members are working to deliver integrated platform-based telematics solutions that help end-users accelerate the development of automotive devices. Wind River's involvement in the COMET program enables associated partners to build, fortify and deliver proven and reliable solutions, such as WIND RIVER® PLATFORM for Car Infotainment, to customers within the automotive industry.

Wind River's participation in the COMET program signifies the company's commitment to building and growing long-term relationships with other industry leaders within the automotive market. Through collaboration, the COMET program will help promote industry standardization, thus supplying proven integrated platform-based solutions to the automotive market that allow customers to focus on their core differentiators.

The COMET program aligns closely with Wind River's approach to the WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment, because it recognizes the importance of integrated technologies for customers looking to improve development efficiencies, accelerate time to market and enhance product reliability. By cooperating with key partners in the COMET program, Wind River can continue to help set the pace for standardization in the embedded software industry.

"Wind River recognizes that partner integration is a key component in developing effective platform-based solutions for our automotive customers," said Marc Serughetti, director of marketing for automotive, industrial, aerospace and defense at Wind River. "By working with COMET, we can leverage the expertise of key partners, such as Tilcon, StoneStreet One, and Access, to develop and deliver solutions that help our customers build automotive devices and, ultimately, accelerate time-to-market, lower costs, and reduce the risk associated within the integration process."

Wind River also works with 14 of the 18 other COMET member companies as part of its Wind River Partner Program. The Wind River Partner Program aims to develop and build valuable relationships with companies that offer integrated and complementary products to Wind River technologies. By working together, Wind River and its partners can draw from each other's technology proficiencies and products to successfully develop integrated solutions that satisfy customers' demands in strategic markets, such as automotive.

Wind River joins the following Wind River Partners in the COMET program: Access; Clarity; Fonix; IBM; Immersion; Mindready; M-Systems; Renesas; Sirf; Scansoft; Solid; StoneStreet One; Tilcon; and WiPro.

For more information on COMET, please visit www.comet-alliance.com/.

For more information on WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment, please visit www.windriver.com/platforms/platformci/.

About Wind River
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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ALAMEDA, Calif.--October 27, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced its Safe and Secure Program--a new initiative designed to address the growing requirements for safety and security certification of embedded devices. Today, these requirements are driven by regulation, litigation, environmental and security initiatives in aerospace and defense, and industrial, markets in which Wind River has established its leadership position by providing the embedded industry's most reliable technologies. The Safe and Secure Program is targeted at applications requiring the highest level of safety and security and is based on Wind River's industry leading integrated embedded platforms specifically designed to meet international certification standards.

According to Venture Development Corporation (VDC), there is a growing demand for certifiable commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) real-time operating systems for use in the aerospace and defense, and industrial markets. "Wind River has been a leader in providing embedded platforms for these markets and the Safe and Secure Program naturally extends the reach of VxWorks(R) to the highest level of certified reliability and demonstrates Wind River's continued innovation and investment in its PLATFORM strategy," said Stephen Balacco, embedded software analyst, VDC.

The initial phase of the Safe and Secure Program is focused on safety critical platforms, supporting standards such as RTCA DO-178B and IEC61508. The Safe and Secure Program provides Wind River customers with an integrated software foundation, certification evidence artifacts and professional services. Wind River PLATFORMS announced today include:

--WIND RIVER(R) PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL is based on the proven VxWorks real-time operating system with certification evidence supporting DO-178B Level A (available today) and in development for IEC61508 (availability by the end of the year).

--WIND RIVER(R) PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL ARINC653 is based on VxWorks AE653, a fully ARINC 653 supplement 1 compliant operating system. This product is also geared towards DO-178B level A certification

WIND RIVER PLATFORMS for Safety Critical offer proven interoperability, flexibility and reliability that meet the stringent requirements set forth for mission critical systems. These safety critical PLATFORMS enable customers developing applications such as integrated modular avionics, ground navigation systems, process control and power plant safety controllers, and railway signaling systems to focus on application development and certification while delivering on the benefits of proven COTS software in conjunction with certification evidence.

"Due to the increase of safety certification requirements in the aerospace and defense, and industrial arenas, the market for safety critical applications and devices is expanding at a rapid pace. As the worldwide leader in embedded software for aerospace and defense markets, it's only appropriate that Wind River is the first independent software solution provider to release an ARINC 653 Supplement 1 compliant solution,' said Tony Tryba, vice president, market divisions for Wind River. "With the increased technology innovations in WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL ARINC653 and the added industrial certification for WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL, Wind River is strengthening its commitment to enriching its product set and continuing to expand its capabilities to meet the needs of developers in safety critical markets."

WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL ARINC653
WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL ARINC653 is based on VxWorks AE653, a fully ARINC653 Supplement 1 compliant operating system that includes time and space based protection domains integrated with Wind River's leading embedded development tools and partner solutions including Ada, test and verification tools, and market specific hardware board support packages. PLATFORM for SAFETY CRTICAL ARINC653 enables application of different safety levels to share computing resources and is specifically designed to support applications such as integrated modular avionics. It is currently being used in developments such as the C130 Avionics Modernization Program. For additional information about the WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL ARINC653, please visit www.windriver.com/platforms/platformsc_arinc/.

WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL
WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL is based on VxWorks/Cert, an efficient, hard RTOS integrated with Wind River's leading embedded development tools. Today’s announcement extends PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL to the industrial market with support for the IEC61508 certification. IEC61508 is a safety certification platform for industrial market applications and devices such as industrial safety controllers for oil refineries, nuclear power plants, and railway signaling systems. VxWorks/Cert has already been proven in safety critical applications including Raytheon’s Wide Area Augmentation System, which was certified following the DO-178B standard. For additional information about the WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL, please visit www.windriver.com/platforms/platformdo/.

WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL and WIND RIVER PLATFORM for SAFETY CRITICAL ARINC653 are available immediately. More information on Wind River's Safe and Secure Program can be found at www.windriver.com/markets/safe_secure/.

About Wind River
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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• Wind River's VxWorks 5.5.1 and Tornado 2.2.1 for Motorola's PowerQUICC(TM) III communications processors are generally available.
• Wind River development boards and BSPs are also available for Motorola's PowerQUICC III communications processors.
• Wind River also plans to add support for the MPC85XX architecture to WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Network Equipment.

ALAMEDA, Calif. and Taipei, Taiwan--Motorola SNDF Asia--October 20, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announces general availability of Wind River's VxWorks(R) 5.5.1 and Tornado(R) 2.2.1 products for Motorola's PowerQUICC(TM) III communications processors, which are based on the Book E(TM) PowerPC(TM) e500 core. Also available immediately are Wind River's SBC85XX development boards and Wind River's Board Support Package for PowerQUICC III processors.

"Wind River has worked closely with Motorola's engineers in the lab to ensure that the PowerQUICC III processor architecture was verified to meet the needs of embedded developers in the network communications market," said David Perkins, corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's Networking and Computing Systems Group. "The general availability of Wind River's VxWorks, Tornado and tools for PowerQUICC III processors is an important milestone as this processor architecture realizes its full potential in the communications and networking equipment marketplace."

Earlier this month, Wind River announced the general availability of its hardware bring-up tools WIND POWER ICE and WIND POWER IDE 1.2 for PowerQUICCIII. The early availability of the increasingly broad range of Wind River technology for the PowerQUICC III architecture enables Wind River's and Motorola's joint customers to take immediate advantage of Motorola's high-performance processors for building advanced networking applications.

"Once again, Wind River's long-standing relationship with Motorola has proven to be a tremendous competitive advantage for our joint customers in the networking market," said Michel Genard, general manager and senior director of hardware assisted and stand-alone tools product division for Wind River. "By working directly with Motorola's engineers, we are able to provide customers with a complete software and tools solution that enables developers to bring products to market faster."

Wind River also plans to add support for the PowerQUICC III architecture to its integrated embedded platform for the networking market, WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Network Equipment (PNE). Wind River's PNE enables rapid development of reliable network infrastructure equipment using the industry's most proven and advanced operating system, development tools, and networking stacks. The integration, testing, and rich-feature set of Wind River's PNE all work to reduce the risks of developing and delivering products on time and on budget.

Wind River is a sponsor of Motorola's Smart Networks Developer Forum (SNDF) Asia. For more information on the conference, please visit http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=02VS0llCc5pzMP0890

For more information about Wind River technologies for PowerQUICC III processors, please visit
http://www.windriver.com/products/tools/motorola_e500_processor.html

About Wind River
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies, Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at
http://www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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Global Corporate Communications

Alameda, Calif.--November 5, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced that Ken Klein will be appointed president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board, effective January 5, 2004. Klein joined Wind River's board of directors on July 24, 2003 and currently serves as chief operating officer and board member of Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in software for business technology optimization (BTO). He brings more than 20 years of extensive leadership experience in the software industry to Wind River.

As CEO, Klein plans to further extend Wind River's leadership position by expanding customer and partner initiatives, continuing to drive the market shift from in-house development to commercial software adoption and delivering innovative, leading-edge products. Simultaneously, Klein will leverage his extensive operations expertise to drive increased efficiencies throughout the company.

"Ken brings the vision, aggressive energy and operational expertise Wind River needs for our next stage of growth and evolution," stated Naren Gupta, interim CEO and vice-chairman of the board for Wind River. "His leadership, proven track record and extensive experience building software companies made him the leading candidate in our search and the perfect fit for Wind River. I am excited about turning the reigns over to Ken in January and look forward to the value he will bring to our customers, employees and shareholders."

"I have tremendous faith in Ken's proven abilities and believe he will do a great job leading Wind River through the next phase of the company's growth," stated Jerry Fiddler, chairman and co-founder for Wind River. "Continuing in my role as an active member of Wind River's board, I look forward to working closely with Ken to further Wind River's leadership position in the embedded industry."

Currently, Klein is serving as chief operating officer and board member for Mercury Interactive Corporation, where he has been instrumental in leading the company for more than 11 years. During his tenure, Mercury grew from a start-up company to more than $500 million in annualized revenue run rate. Prior to joining Mercury Interactive, Klein served in various roles at Interactive Development Environments, Daisy Systems and Hughes Aircraft Company. Klein also serves on the boards of Mercury Interactive, Tumbleweed Communications and the University of Southern California's School of Engineering.

"Since July I've had the opportunity to work with Wind River's talented, passionate leadership team providing me with insight into the company's vision, strategy and execution," said Klein. "Momentum is building both at Wind River and in the embedded industry, and I can't imagine a more exciting time to join the company. As the world becomes more connected, embedded systems will fuel the next wave of technology growth. I look forward to helping Wind River become the company that will enable a truly connected world."

About Wind River Systems, Inc.
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River a http://www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

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• Wind River's visionPROBE II to extend operating system support to Linux. Additional hardware assisted tools for Linux to be released.
• Immediate hardware availability for Linux support with visionPROBE II for the IBM PowerPC 405 processor family. Wind River's tools will also support additional IBM and Motorola PowerPC devices by the end of the current quarter. Future support is also planned for various MIPS processors.
• visionPROBE II provides the industry's most feature-rich emulation tool for board bring-up, flash programming and production test.

ALAMEDA, Calif.--October 2, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced that it is extending its industry leading hardware bring-up tools to include support for Linux. Customers can turn to Wind River for leading-edge run control and debugging tools that work with WIND RIVER(R) PLATFORMS, VxWorks(R) and embedded Linux. visionPROBE II(TM) is immediately available for the IBM PowerPC(TM) 405 family.

"Wind River's decision to support both VxWorks and Linux through its stand-alone tools business is a strategic move for the company," said Paul Zorfass, senior analyst with International Data Corporation/FTI. "With the embedded Linux tools market still in its early stage and evolving, Wind River's Linux tools offering is a welcome and an innovative response to broaden the capabilities of Linux developers. By expanding its comprehensive embedded developer tools solutions further, Wind River is reaffirming its responsiveness to the developer community and its position as an industry leader."

Unlike existing embedded Linux hardware products available today, Wind River's hardware bring-up tools provide embedded developers who choose the Linux kernel with technology innovations that solve their specific bring-up needs. By providing visibility and access to both the virtual and the physical address space, visionPROBE II gives developers the ability to track Linux virtual access and to control their physical peripherals and memory. Additionally, with its automated boot line feature, the Wind River solution allows developers to run their Linux kernel on their target processor prior to a boot loader being available.

"Wind River's decision to extend tools support to the Linux operating system is in response to our customers and to a true market need," said Dave Fraser, senior vice president, products, for Wind River. "We have a significant standalone tools business and although our customers can use the products with any technology, we like to focus additional functionality on the biggest operating systems. Linux is now very popular in embedded, but it is quite immature and challenging in the area of tools--particularly for customers bringing up and debugging on custom hardware."

Key Features and Benefits

Wind River's hardware run control and debugger products provide robust development and test tool solutions used for hardware bring-up and debugging. These tools provide the most feature-rich capabilities for board bring-up, flash programming, and production/test in the industry today. Wind River's hardware assisted tools features include:

System level debugging of the target processor: If the kernel is not running, the developer still has access to the target's resources and memory

JTAG capabilities:

• Run control


• Access to physical and virtual memory


• Register files


• JTAG commands


• Interface via JTAG port, freeing Ethernet and serial ports for other uses

Kernel level debugging:

• Scheduling


• Memory allocation


• Interrupt handler

Support for breakpoints in virtual memory
-Software and internal hardware breakpoints

Automated boot line: provides ability to run kernel on the target without having a boot loader image installed

"With this solution, our customers are able to use the operating system of their choice, and still have access to a leading-edge embedded toolset," said Lisa Su, director of PowerPC and emerging products, IBM Microelectronics. "IBM and Wind River are working together to provide solutions that best fit the needs of the embedded marketplace."

Initial host operating system support will be for Microsoft Windows. Wind River's Linux debugging solution will be available on the WIND(R)POWER ICE product and on the Linux host operating system in future releases. For more information on visionPROBE II, please visit http://www.windriver.com/products/visionprobe2/index.html

About Wind River
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at http://www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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Global Corporate Communications

• Wind River announces general availability of hardware bring-up tools and for Motorola's PowerQUICC III communications processor.
• Wind River is first to market with hardware bring-up tools for the PowerQUICC III.
• Wind River's development boards, VxWorks operating system and Tornado Tools will be generally available later this quarter.

ALAMEDA, Calif.--October 1, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced the general availability of its hardware bring-up tools WIND®POWER ICE and WIND®POWER IDE 1.2 for Motorola's PowerQUICC™ III communications processor, which is based on the Book E™ PowerPC™ e500 core. With Wind River tools and early availability of Wind River technology for the PowerQUICCIII, customers can take advantage of this high-performance processor immediately--allowing them to focus on building advanced networking applications that provide significant market advantage.

With the general availability of Wind River's WIND POWER ICE and WIND POWER IDE 1.2 products, early adopters of Motorola's MPC85xx processor family have the complete board bring-up solution they need to get their job done quickly and efficiently. In addition to its hardware bring up tools, Wind River plans to support this processor family by providing MPC8540 and MPC8560 support in the following products: hardware development boards, BSPs, Tornado 2.2.1 development tools, and WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Networking Equipment (PNE).

"PowerQUICC III promises to be a very important processor for the network equipment market, and Wind River is proud to have worked side-by-side with Motorola in bringing this important product to market," said Michel Genard, general manager and senior director of hardware assisted and standalone tools product division for Wind River. "By being first to market with development tools for this architecture, we are extending our investment in ensuring the ultimate success of this processor and of the embedded developers in the network equipment space."

Click here for more information about Wind River tools for the POWERQUICCIII.

About Wind River
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It provides market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Wind River provides high-integrity technology and expertise that enables its customers to create superior products more efficiently. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications