Alameda, Calif.--November 17, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today awarded Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici a "Cool Customer Design" award for its Telematics and Infotainment System, the most comprehensive integrated navigation, communication and entertainment system for the automotive industry. Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici used Wind River car infotainment technology to speed the product development life-cycle. Currently, numerous car manufacturers installed the Telematics and Infotainment System, including the Alfa 147, Fiat Stilo, Fiat Ducato, Fiat Doblo, Fiat Ulysse, Lancia Phedra, Peugeot 307, Peugeot 807, Citroen C3, Citroen C5, Citroen C8, the Maserati Spyder and Maserati Coupe.

The Telematics and Infotainment System, the latest in a line of innovations from Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici, integrates a satellite navigator, a dual-band GSM telephone, voice commands, text-to-speech, a radio and CD player supporting MP3. Telematics services include emergency and breakdown calls as well as the possibility to connect to an external contact center to allow users to access a wide range of real-time travel information services from the driver's seat.

"With development windows in the automotive industry shrinking, using commercial off-the-shelf software from Wind River has been critical to meeting our target market window for the Telematics and Infotainment System," said Antonino Damiano, telematics design manager, Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici. "Wind River provided Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici with a complete pre-integrated development environment critical to the design success of a very feature-rich application and has also has been an excellent partner to us throughout the entire design cycle."

By standardizing on Wind River technology, Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici was able to meet its primary design goals of supporting a range of processor architectures, hardware flexibility, and a real-time operating system (RTOS) with the ability to handle numerous tasks simultaneously without compromising the feature set.

"Cost control and time to market are two of the most difficult challenges facing automotive OEMs," said Federico De Sario, southwest regional director for Wind River. "Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici needed to integrate multiple communication links and enabling technologies and at the same time, deliver a prototype in less than nine months. By taking advantage of Wind River technology, Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici was able to focus its efforts on building value added features, rather than integrating technologies."

Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici, a global leader in the design and production of high-tech components and systems for the automotive industry, has worked with Wind River for more than four years on different iterations of its car-infotainment systems. Through a multi-level partnership with Wind River, Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici has been able to reduce its development costs without sacrificing innovation.

Ixfin Magneti Marelli Sistemi Elettronici used the integrated connectivity and real-time operating power of Wind River's leading VxWorks RTOS and Tornado integrated development environment (IDE) to build the first telematics and car infotainment system capable of seamlessly integrating a broad range of applications into one compact device.

Wind River also announced in April 2003 the availability of WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment (PLATFORM CI), an integrated embedded platform that serves as the software foundation for developing car infotainment and telematic devices. Using PLATFORM CI, OEMs can standardize on a single-market platform across product lines, reducing their engineering costs and speeding development cycles.

To learn more about WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment, please go to 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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• Xanavi Informatics Corporation selects WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment.
• Wind River continues to strengthen partnership with Xanavi.
• Xanavi's adoption of WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment further validates Wind River's PLATFORM strategy.

Alameda, Calif.--November 17, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced that Xanavi Informatics Corporation, a leading provider of in-vehicle information systems, has selected WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment (PLATFORM CI) to increase development efficiency and productivity. Wind River and Xanavi have a long-standing partnership that has produced a number of Xanavi's car infotainment solutions, such as Xanavi CARWINGS. Xanavi continues to rely on Wind River for integrated embedded technology that enables Xanavi to provide its customers with top-quality performance and reliability.

"Given that companies are looking for ways to maximize resources and returns during the tough economic climate, many are seeking out partners like Wind River that can help them increase efficiencies in the development and delivery of their solutions," said Masafumi Naito, manager, Technical Research Center Product Research & Development Division for Xanavi Informatics Corporation. "By developing our car infotainment solutions on Wind River's reliable PLATFORM CI, we can now effectively accelerate time-to-market, lower costs, and reduce risk involved in designing, developing and deploying our in-vehicle devices."

PLATFORM CI enables faster time-to-market by cutting integration and testing time, often the most time-consuming stages within the development process. It also lowers costs by combining industry-leading components and tools for a wide variety of development needs with enterprise-wide licensing terms that allow the platform to be leveraged across multiple projects within an organization. Additionally, PLATFORM CI reduces the risk, effort, and cost of integrating components and tools from multiple sources with single supplier support.

"Customers are quickly realizing the value of integrated embedded platforms that are tailored to their specific industry," said Tony Tryba, vice president market divisions for Wind River. "Xanavi's adoption of the WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment is a solid endorsement of the benefits of our PLATFORM strategy."

To learn more about WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment, please go to www.windriver.com/platforms/platformci/

To learn more about Xanavi, please go to www.xanavi.co.jp

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 offers additional architecture and automotive specific development platform support for the automotive industry.
• Wind River's WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment (PLATFORM CI)is available for industry leading Super H, PowerPC, MIPS, XScale and ARM car infotainment processors.
• Wind River reinforces its commitment to industry standardization by extending support for WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment.

Alameda, Calif.--November 17, 2003--Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced that it is extending its automotive-specific integrated embedded platform, WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Car Infotainment (PLATFORM CI), to support additional architectures including MIPS, XScale, ARM, and PowerPC. PLATFORM CI enables original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and Tier 1 automotive suppliers to build car infotainment and telematics devices with improved efficiencies, thus accelerating time to market.

Specifically, PLATFORM CI now offers better support for the specialized automotive processors and reference boards that an increasing amount of automotive customers are demanding from semiconductor providers. In addition to expanding PLATFORM CI to include these additional architectures, Wind River also supports the vast majority of automotive-specific hardware used in embedded development, including Renesas' SH7760 Biscayne board and SH7751R BigSur/Amanda board, and Motorola's MPC5200 based 5200Lite board.

The expanded architecture support enables OEMs and Tier 1 automotive suppliers to more easily standardize embedded development across product lines. By standardizing on PLATFORM CI, these OEMs and suppliers are able to devote valuable time and resources to developing competitive differentiators and core strengths instead of exhausting those same resources on piecing together foundational technologies. Wind River's annual subscription licensing model also ensures that throughout the standardization process, customers will continually benefit from new innovations and increasing support from Wind River.

"Given the rapidly increasing amount of silicon in cars today, semiconductor manufacturers are producing more and more automotive-specific hardware, and technologies such as Wind River's PLATFORM CI are enabling developers to produce reliable car infotainment and telematics devices quickly and cost effectively," said Marc Serughetti, director of marketing for automotive, industrial, aerospace and defense at Wind River. "The expansion of PLATFORM CI support reinforces Wind River's unyielding commitment to delivering highly reliable platform support to the automotive market."

PLATFORM CI integrates the necessary foundation software to quickly design, develop and deploy such devices. Based on the proven reliable VxWorks real-time operating system and powerful development tools, PLATFORM CI supports a variety of in car network protocols like CAN and MOST, as well as wireless network protocols like 802.11 and PPP. PLATFORM CI now supports MIPS, XScale, ARM, PowerPC and SuperH processors. With PLATFORM CI, customers' development focus can shift from integration to innovation.

To learn more about 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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Global Corporate Communications

• Wind River integrates key wireless and security components in PLATFORM for Network Equipment, allowing vendors of wireless access points, home gateways, cable and DSL modems, and Enterprise and SOHO routers and switches to get to market quickly to meet the growing demand for a secure, connected world.
• The broadband access market is expected to grow at an ACGR of 25% per year through 2006, driving the demand for network infrastructure equipment. OEMs for these devices are facing shortened time-to-market cycles. Being first to market and focusing on differentiation is key to their success.

ALAMEDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003 -- Wind River Systems, Inc., the worldwide market leader in embedded software and services, today announced availability of the second generation of its industry-leading Wind River® PLATFORM for Network Equipment (PNE), with enhanced WiFi capabilities, expanded security features and significantly increased networking performance. By integrating these core technologies, Wind River's PNE 2.0 enables manufacturers of network equipment to focus on product differentiation and being first to market with innovative, leading edge products. The integration of wireless and security protocols in PNE 2.0 enables companies to easily meet the growing demand for products such as wireless access points, home gateways, cable and DSL modems, and Enterprise and SOHO routers and switches.

The WiFi and broadband access markets are the fastest growing network equipment segments, and represent a huge opportunity for Wind River's network equipment customers. By 2006, analysts predict there will be 99 million WiFi users and 89 thousand public WiFi access points around the world, while the number of worldwide cable modem subscribers will reach 68 million by 2007. This sizeable growth in wireless and broadband access is also driving the need for network infrastructure equipment, such as routers and switches. Manufacturers of next generation network equipment are looking to standardize on integrated solutions that can be re-used across multiple product lines in order to keep development costs down. Wind River has been working closely with industry leaders including Intel and Motorola to anticipate customers' needs, combining proven networking technologies with the most up to date components to become the ideal solution for a wide variety of network projects.

Designed expressly for developers of network infrastructure systems, PLATFORM NE 2.0 is a highly integrated platform, which enables the rapid development of reliable network infrastructure equipment. PLATFORM NE integrates the industry's most widely deployed real-time operating system with advanced hardware and software development tools, complete device management software, and essential embedded networking protocols including:

• Wireless protocols


• Security protocols


• High performance router stack and routing protocols


• Connectivity and remote access protocols

PLATFORM NE is compatible with a broad range of processor architectures, including Intel® StrongARM, Intel® XScale® microarchitecture, Intel® Architecture, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, and SuperH, allowing the developer to select the architecture that provides the best cost/performance for the product under development.

"Wind River is committed to helping our customers create cutting edge products to meet new market opportunities," said Dave Fraser group vice president & GM, products, for Wind River. "Wind River PLATFORMS are a proven, effective and reliable foundation for development success, and our enterprise-wide subscription licensing model enables network equipment manufacturers to incorporate market-specific technology required to stay competitive, year over year."

PLATFORM NE 2.0 is available immediately for the full line of Intel network processors. Current Wind River PLATFORM NE customers will receive a free upgrade to PLATFORM NE 2.0. For more information about WIND RIVER PLATFORM for Network Equipment please visit www.windriver.com/products/platforms/network_equipment.

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