• Redefines VxWorks- and Linux-based device development with announcement of new and enhanced products
• Announces comprehensive services practices tailored to meet specific vertical market needs
• Hardware and software partners evangelize the benefits of Wind River solutions as a way to address industry shift toward standardized, optimized device development

ALAMEDA, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla. — May 23, 2005 — Extending its commitment to the shift toward open standards and optimized solutions for software development, Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO) today unveiled its strategy to deliver high-value solutions that developers across the full product lifecycle can use to create optimized, industry-specific devices. With a complete range of product, service and partner announcements coming from the company’s annual Worldwide User Conference in Orlando, Wind River addressed the radical shift that is taking place across all device industries wherein customers are increasingly demanding integrated, enterprise-wide development solutions that help manufacturers make reliable software-driven products faster, better and at a lower cost.

“Because companies are under increasing pressure to build more intelligent and connected devices, it is a fundamental requirement that device software be developed more quickly and efficiently, with more reliability, while controlling cost,” said Theresa Lanowitz, research director, Gartner. “DSO offers a complete integrated development environment and the ability to commercialize market-specific middleware.”

Product Leadership
Wind River today unveiled its largest technology initiative of the year, setting the industry standard for device software development offerings.

• Wind River Workbench Delivers Industry’s Most Advanced Device Software Optimization Development Suite: Responding to demand from developers for tailored environments that address specific needs along the device development lifecycle, Wind River today announced the industry’s first suite of Workbench-based development products designed to span the entire DSO lifecycle. To see today’s release, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2187
  
• Wind River Raises the Bar in Linux Device Software Development; Introduces New Products, Services and Partnerships to Speed Linux Adoption in the Device Software Optimization Market: Furthering its lead in providing reliable, cost-effective technology platforms for Linux devices, Wind River today announced a complete range of Linux solutions designed to meet the needs of Linux application developers as well as Linux platform developers. To see today’s release, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2185
  
• Wind River VxWorks 6.1 Delivers Unprecedented Interoperability and Compatibility Across Software Platforms and Hardware Architectures: Wind River today announced VxWorks 6.1, the newest version of the world’s leading real-time operating system for device software, furthering Wind River’s already substantial lead in the evolution of next generation device development. To see today’s release, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2186
  
• Wind River Transforms Consumer Device Industry; Announces Comprehensive Suite of Products and Service Offerings, Expanded Partner Ecosystem and Reference Design Systems: Fighting the battle of rising complexity in consumer devices, Wind River today announced that it is transforming the consumer device industry by providing the market with industry-shaping product, partner and services news for consumer device manufacturers. To see today’s release, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2184

Services Practices
As a trusted long-term partner, Wind River now offers its customers market-specific Device Services Practices specifically tuned to help manufacturers meet the challenges that are unique to vertical industries. Building on its launch of the Automotive Devices Services Practice earlier this month, Wind River today announced the Consumer Devices Services Practice and tailored services solutions across Wind River’s product line. Unlike any other DSO solutions provider, Wind River boasts more than 175 consultants dispersed in field locations around the world and in design centers located in San Diego, Ottawa, Munich and Grenoble. These consultants provide customers with a global support system plus full access to Wind River’s 500 engineering and customer support resources. Over Wind River’s long-standing legacy as a trusted consultant, it has provided tailored services to leading customers around the world.

DSO Ecosystem
Wind River's ecosystem of Platform Partners, the most extensive program in the industry, pre-integrates and validates the best silicon and software products with Wind River’s leading platforms. Multiple companies announced expanded partnerships with Wind River during the Worldwide User Conference, enhancing the DSO ecosystem to include a wider range of leading software and hardware suppliers to put best-of-breed device development solutions and services at customers’ fingertips. Additionally, Wind River and key ecosystem partners announced plans to provide market-specific reference designs, to bring solid platforms for both hardware and software engineers to use in evaluating and prototyping designs that closely parallel final applications. The reference designs will reduce development time and accelerate time to market across industries, and will be on display to show DSO in action at the conference. For details on Wind River and partner news made today, please visit:

• MIPS Technologies Names Wind River as its Premier Device Software Optimization Solution Provider: http://www.mips.com/content/PressRoom/PressReleases/press_releases?year=2005
  
• Wind River Extends Development Suite Support To Express Logic’s Popular ThreadX Real-Time Operating System: http://www.rtos.com/newsdetail.asp?PRID=91
  
• Wind River and Wipro Technologies Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide Best-in-Class Device Software Technology and Services: http://www.wipro.com/newsroom/index.htm
  
• ENCIRQ and Wind River Partner to Deliver on Device Software Optimization: http://www.encirq.com/pdfs/ENCIRQ_WindRiver.pdf

"Device Software Optimization has liberated companies from the time consuming development processes of old,” said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer, Wind River. “The market for optimized software development called, Wind River answered, and countless customers worldwide are now innovating faster and cutting costs dramatically by relying on our technologies, tailored services and unmatched partner relationships.”

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

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• Industry’s first and only Eclipse-based open device software development solution that offers deep capability for developers across the entire development process in a single integrated suite for VxWorks, Linux and ThreadX
• Wind River Workbench offers configurations ranging from on-chip debugging and system bring-up, to application and full-blown kernel development
• Expands platform aware capabilities to include ThreadX, Red Hat Linux, kernel.org 2.6 Linux, MontaVista Linux, in addition to Wind River VxWorks and Wind River Linux
• Contributes Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) project specification to Eclipse.org as Eclipse Strategic Developer
• Latest versions of RTI ScopeTools are incorporated into Wind River Workbench

ALAMEDA, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla. – May 23, 2005 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that it is radically redefining the development tool space with four configurations of Wind River Workbench to meet the needs of different developers. Wind River Workbench 2.3 is the industry’s first and only Eclipse-based open device software development solution that offers deep capability for developers across the entire development process in a single integrated suite. Wind River Workbench supports development on the VxWorks and Linux operating systems, as well as the ThreadX operating system from Express Logic, which was announced today. Please visit the related press release here: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2182

“Stand alone development solutions have become things of the past,” said John Fanelli, vice president, product planning and management, Wind River. “Development today is more intermeshed and complex than it has ever been. The only way for device developers to dramatically cut the time and cost associated with developing technologically advanced offerings is to use a development environment that works just as easily on one platform, in any role, as it does on any another. Wind River Workbench makes that optimized development dream possible.”

With the release of Workbench 2.3, the Workbench product line offers four configurations that allow organizations developing device software to outfit their developers with a specific package tuned to address their particular requirements. The four configurations include:

Wind River Workbench
The premier Wind River Workbench configuration provides a complete development solution for device software targeting VxWorks-, Linux- and ThreadX-based devices. Within this configuration, developers have access to the full range of capabilities required for hardware bring-up, platform and system software development, kernel-level development and application-level development. In addition, this release of Wind River Workbench incorporates the deep dynamic visual debugging and validation capabilities that were acquired in January 2005. Wind River Workbench is offered as a tightly integrated component of Wind River’s VxWorks- or Linux-based platforms, or as a standalone development suite for developing device software.

Wind River Workbench, Application Edition
This configuration of Workbench is designed to provide an equally powerful development solution targeted for use by Linux application developers who do not require advanced capabilities such as hardware bring-up or kernel-level development and debugging support. Wind River Workbench, Application Edition can be used to develop and debug on the target device that is being created or natively on a Linux host.

Wind River Workbench, Desktop Edition
This configuration of Wind River Workbench is ideally suited for developers looking to complement their existing development tool chain and/or debugger with a modern integrated development environment. Wind River Workbench, Desktop Edition provides powerful baseline development suite capabilities including a project system, build system, editor, and source code analysis capabilities identical to those offered in every Wind River Workbench configuration. Wind River Workbench, Desktop Edition can also be used simply as a code composition and comprehension environment, leveraging the power of its source code analysis capabilities and the integration of those capabilities with the editor.

Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging Edition
This configuration of Workbench is designed to meet the needs of developers who are engaged early in the device software development cycle responsible for the initial board bring-up and validation, developing device drivers, incorporating low level software capabilities, and developing C/C++ applications. Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging Edition offers a fully featured Wind River Workbench development environment optimized for the capabilities of JTAG-based debugging using Wind River ICE and Wind River Probe. This configuration is an ideal solution when working to bring up hardware that can be best debugged using JTAG-based run control.

Eclipse Device Software Development Platform Update
Wind River is delivering on its promise to lead the industry’s effort to drive standardization and value into the DSO developer community. In March of this year, Wind River and the Eclipse Foundation announced that Wind River was proposing and would lead an Eclipse Device Software Development Platform project, the first project specifically for device software development. Since that time, Wind River has made great progress in working with the community to define the DSDP project in more detail. The proposal has been posted on the Eclipse website at: www.eclipse.org/proposals/eclipse-dsdp/index.html, and a DSDP newsgroup has been established for public review and comment at: news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.dsdp.

“Wind River has been a valued contributor to the Eclipse Foundation, and we are very positive about the direction in which the Device Software Development Platform project is moving,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, Inc. “The device realm is truly an important area of software development and product differentiation, and we are confident that this new project is going to add tremendous value to the Eclipse community.”

Strong Partner Support for Wind River Workbench 2.3
Wind River boasts partnerships with many of the industry’s leading software and hardware technology providers, which affords customers the choices they need to be successful in a highly competitive and crowded market. Partners have expressed resounding support for Wind River Workbench 2.3.

“The partnership between Wind River and Coverity will give developers the unique ability to develop high quality code while improving time to market on an unprecedented scale. Wind River Workbench provides Coverity customers with a standard Eclipse-based development environment. Developers, using the combination of Coverity Prevent and Wind River Workbench, can easily locate and remedy software defects much faster than with conventional tools,” said David Park, vice president of business development, Coverity. “The static analysis and source browsing capabilities of Coverity Prevent allow developers to quickly and automatically pinpoint catastrophic defects in the source code. Combined with Wind River Workbench, this capability is made available to developers to address defects when they are introduced. Together, Wind River Workbench and Coverity Prevent complement Wind River's Device Software Optimization strategy, enabling developers to improve software quality much more effectively across the development process.”

“Software testing tool vendor IPL is working closely with Wind River to provide its Wind River Workbench and platform customers an automated unit and integration test solution,” said Shaun Davey, product manager, IPL. “IPL is excited to collaborate with Wind River in the software development and testing arena, to provide customers with leading-edge testing solutions. A tight integration of Cantata++ with the Wind River Workbench IDE and development tools will enable a dramatic increase in overall software quality, and reduce the risk and cost associated with development and maintenance of device software.”

“As part of its continuing relationship with Wind River and the Wind River VxWorks operating system, AdaCore is committed to providing world class Ada capabilities for the Wind River Workbench environment," said Robert Dewar, president and chief executive officer of AdaCore, Inc.

Availability
The Wind River Workbench family of products is available today in Early Access for select customers and will be generally available in June 2005.

To learn more about Wind River Workbench, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/products/development_tools/ide/wind_river_workbench

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

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• Brings to device software the most robust and flexible real-time operating system with support for open standards and unprecedented interoperability
• Industry’s first and only DSO provider to deliver both IPv6 Ready Phase II Logo Certification and a commercial strength Transparent Interprocess Communication (TIPC) implementation
• Broadens VxWorks 6 device support to include ARM, xScale and SuperH processor architectures; expands existing PPC, Intel Architecture and MIPS architectures to additional processors
• Announces Professional Services Practice for VxWorks-based devices

ALAMEDA, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla. – May 23, 2005 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today introduced VxWorks 6.1, the newest version of the world’s leading real-time operating system for device software, furthering Wind River’s already substantial lead in the evolution of next generation device development. Wind River also announced that VxWorks 6.1 received the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Ready Phase II Logo Certification, making Wind River the only DSO provider to offer customers this level of certification for connected devices, along with a commercial strength Transparent Interprocess Communication (TIPC) implementation.

“Wind River is simply unbeatable when it comes to offering device manufacturers the best real-time functionality and interoperability across a huge range of architectures,” said John Fanelli, vice president, product planning and management, Wind River. “There is simply no other real-time offering that meets device requirements across as many hardware platforms as VxWorks, that supports standards-based interoperability, and integrates seamlessly with the leading Eclipse-based device development environment, Wind River Workbench. VxWorks still trumps all the rest, hands down, at helping customers make reliable devices faster, better, and at lower cost.”

As the device market has matured, so have the demands for more intelligent, connected, reliable products. To address this shift, software has quickly become a significant competitive differentiator in products across all vertical industries, even for companies that have not traditionally relied on technology as a key part of their business strategy. As such, hordes of companies are seeking out ways to efficiently add high functionality software to their products without incurring high development costs. Wind River is uniquely positioned to bring value to those companies by providing efficient, optimized development processes on top of the world’s most trusted real-time operating system for devices.

According to Daya Nadamuni, chief analyst and research vice president in Gartner Dataquest, “Devices are becoming multi-functional, and many stand alone devices are converging to a single platform. Rising device complexity is driving the need for real time operating systems that are reliable and scalable and provide broad architecture support.” ¹

Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition 3.1
VxWorks 6 has been adopted in dozens of new device wins since the December 2004 introduction. Key features and capabilities driving VxWorks 6 momentum include support for real-time, memory protected threads, configurable footprint size, advanced error detection and sockets-based messaging architecture.

The Wind River General Purpose Platform, VxWorks Edition combines VxWorks 6.1, the latest update to the VxWorks operating system, and Wind River Workbench 2.3 to provide a robust end-to-end development and runtime platform that spans the continuum of device software development. VxWorks 6.1 brings to device software the most robust and flexible real-time operating system with support for open standards and unprecedented interoperability, while providing backward compatibility with existing VxWorks 5.5 and 6 software. The Wind River General Purpose Platform 6.1 will provide the rock-solid, high performing foundation for Wind River’s market specific platforms, including Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices and Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices.

New VxWorks capabilities include:

• Broad processor support: Meets device hardware requirements across all industry verticals including network equipment, consumer, aerospace and defense, industrial, and automotive. VxWorks 6.1 supports PowerPC, MIPS, Intel Architecture, ARM, XScale, and SuperH architectures.


• Advanced messaging and connectivity: Customers are demanding support for evermore complex and connected devices. VxWorks 6.1 includes the Wind River dual-mode IPv4/v6 mode network stack, which has recently been awarded the IPv6 Ready Phase II Logo Certification, a key requirement for many vertical industries including aerospace and defense and consumer devices. VxWorks 6.1 also includes multi-processor and process communication service message channels that leverage the open source TIPC protocol, allowing VxWorks-based systems to transparently communicate and interoperate in heterogeneous operating environments.


• Integrated Development Environment support: VxWorks 6.1 is tightly integrated with Wind River Workbench 2.3 which provides best-in-class development capabilities and seamlessly integrates hundreds of third-party plug-ins. Based on the Eclipse framework, it enables standardization on one common development suite across an entire organization and is extensible and scalable, allowing customers to meet unique project needs.

Wind River Professional Services
Wind River is the only DSO provider to bring a full range of services and support offerings to its customers. Wind River Professional Services has been at the forefront of helping clients implement good ideas for more than 20 years. Whatever the technical or logistical challenge, Wind River Professional Services offers a unique blend of skills, contacts, knowledge, intellectual property, flexible resources, design process and project management methodology to help get customers’ products to market. Supporting the VxWorks 6.1 release, Wind River Professional Services offers its leading consultation services to clients buying VxWorks for the first time as well as clients migrating to VxWorks 6.1. A sampling of the services that VxWorks customers can receive include:

• Device design: Includes system requirements development, hardware, and software high-level architecture design, technology assessments, and partial and complete design outsourcing to help ensure a project’s success


• Board support package (BSP) and driver optimization: Includes development and maintenance of Wind River-compliant VxWorks 6.1 BSPs and customized drivers


• Software system and middleware integration: Integrate, test, and support third-party provided middleware technologies to VxWorks 6.1


• Legacy application and infrastructure migration: Port to and validate legacy software systems with the VxWorks 6.1 platform


• Real-time best practices: Seasoned consultants with extensive device software expertise and dozens of project successes consult on a global scale to ensure your project’s success

Strong Partner Support for VxWorks
VxWorks 6.1 broadens the existing PowerPC, MIPS Technologies, and Intel Architecture processor support and adds architecture support to include ARM, Intel XScale, and Renesas SuperH architectures.

“We are excited about the new developments in VxWorks. Wind River is recognized as the leader for DSO solutions, and our licensees continue to adopt its solutions,” said Jack Browne, vice president of worldwide sales, MIPS Technologies. “Strengthening of the Wind River and MIPS Technologies relationship benefits our joint customers by lowering development costs and reducing time-to-market.”

“ARM, as the leading semiconductor Intellectual Property company, designs technology that lies at the heart of a broad range of advanced digital products including wireless, networking and consumer entertainment platforms,” said Mary Inglis, director, Operating Systems and Alliances, ARM. “The inclusion of ARM architectural support to VxWorks and the Wind River development environment will enable developers to fully leverage the capabilities of the architecture.”

Availability
Wind River VxWorks 6.1 will be available in late May in Early Access for select customers.
It will be generally available in June 2005.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

¹Source: Gartner Dataquest, "User Survey: Embedded System Design, Asia/Pacific, 2004, Published May 17, 2005.

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Global Corporate Communications

• Wind River announces Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition and latest version of Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition
• Complete platform offering includes Wind River Workbench and delivers configuration options tailored to meet the needs of Linux application developers and Linux platform developers
• Wind River Workbench provides developer support for Wind River Linux, Red Hat Linux, kernel.org Linux, and MontaVista Linux
• Announces Professional Services Practices providing Linux and development expertise across multiple industries

ALAMEDA, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla. – May 23, 2005 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced the expansion of its industry-leading Linux solutions to address critical developer needs across all phases of the Linux development cycle. Specific new features and functionality are designed to address expanded Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) requirements, as well as the full range of Linux development needs from kernel debugging to application development. Wind River’s Linux solutions offer device manufacturers a runtime environment that seamlessly integrates the Linux operating system (OS) and robust middleware with Wind River Workbench, the industry’s most comprehensive development suite.

“Today’s announcement closely follows the January 2005 Linux release and the market adoption of Wind River’s Linux Platform, setting the pace for other Linux providers,” said John Fanelli, vice president, product planning and management, Wind River. “Our customers are demanding that we deliver Linux solutions incorporating the latest kernel.org releases that are scalable, reliable and high performing, backed with the 20+ years of support and professional services capabilities that only Wind River can deliver.”

Today’s device manufacturers are under increasing pressure to support the demand for more complex software. To keep up with this demand, device manufacturers are forced to deliver complex devices faster, while maintaining quality and reliability. In order to be successful, developers are choosing to adopt a DSO strategy that enables innovation, flexibility and cost controls within tight development windows. The Wind River Linux solutions enable customers to deliver Linux-based device software with increased connectivity, security, reliability and quality.

“Wind River has made tremendous strides, both in its support for open source and in bringing choice to the device software space,” said Bill Weinberg, OSDL open source architecture specialist. “The company offers a wide array of solutions, with support for multiple operating systems and Eclipse-based tools, and is making key investments in Linux for device software, including active participation in the OSDL Carrier Grade Working Group.”

Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition and
Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition
Wind River’s Linux Platform offerings are based on kernel.org and deliver an integrated platform designed for both “hard-core” Linux kernel developers as well as Linux-based application developers:

• Based on Linux 2.6.10 kernel


• Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) version 2


• ATCA and Compact PCI support


• Workbench 2.3 development suite support


• Commercial strength development methodology and support: leverages two decades of Wind River experience in developing, integrating, testing and supporting device software that requires a high degree of reliability and scalability


• Flexibility in configuration and purchase options

Wind River Professional Services
Supporting the new Linux General Purpose Platform, Wind River also announced Wind River Professional Services for Linux. Based on more than 20 years of DSO services experience, Wind River Professional Services now offers its full suite of capabilities for the Linux market. Whatever the technical or logistical challenge, Wind River Professional Services offers a unique blend of skills, contacts, knowledge, intellectual property, flexible resources, design process and project management methodology to help get customers’ products to market. A sampling of the services that Linux customers receive includes:

Technology enabling

• Platform support: Hotline, custom hotline, AE/TAM access, training, installation and orientation services


• Platform enabling: Custom training, Linux support package, device drivers, feature acceleration, EOL extension and support, middleware integration


• Platform customization: Platform extensions, third party IP integration, middleware, platform and runtime optimizations, Wind River Workbench porting, kernel customization, custom drivers

Design Services

• First design: First version complete system design and development services, including knowledge transfer


• Linux migration: Evaluate and recommend an effective porting strategy to migrate current applications to new platforms, Linux simulation, migration services

Service Availability Forum
Traditionally, commercial technology vendors and Telecom Equipment Manufacturers have made significant investments in various proprietary high availability middleware solutions. However, this area of technology, while still critical for the applications, no longer provides for strong vendor differentiation. Much of it has been adopted by open standards and becomes available in open source. Following the general industry trend toward standardization, telecom equipment and solution providers are looking to replace their in-house technology efforts with open standards-based solutions.

The leading standards body around high availability is the Service Availability Forum (SAF). SAF is concerned with the specification of software programming interfaces for networking applications requiring high service availability. Its goal is to provide for open standards and modularity of high availability functional components. Wind River is an active member of the SAF contributing to the specification of standard interfaces for high availability telecom applications.

Strong Partner Support for Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition
Wind River boasts partnerships with many of the industry’s leading software and hardware technology providers, which affords customers the choices they need to be successful in a highly competitive and crowded market. Partners have expressed resounding support for Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition:

"One of the biggest challenges we experience with the Linux operating system today is that our customers want a quality distribution that they can deploy with confidence. They want a solid Linux kernel foundation that is scalable, integrated and tested," said Dave Mothersole, chief technology officer, Networking and Computing Systems Group, Freescale. "Now that Wind River is bringing more than 20 years of device software experience to the Linux kernel-based device market, we believe this problem is solvable, and we are happily working with Wind River to that end."

“We are excited about the new developments in the Wind River Platforms and its added support for MIPS cores. Wind River is recognized as the leader for DSO solutions and our licensees continue to adopt their solutions,” said Jack Browne, vice president of worldwide sales, MIPS Technologies. “Strengthening of the Wind River and MIPS Technologies relationship benefits our joint customers by lowering development costs and reducing time-to-market.”

“The ARM microprocessor architecture is the leading choice for a wide range of next-generation consumer products where Linux is increasingly being used. The expansion of Wind River development solutions to target these platforms will enable developers to maximize control and optimize performance throughout the development cycle,” said Philippe Robin, product manager, ARM. “The inclusion of support for the RealView® Versatile Application Baseboard for the ARM926EJ-S™ will provide an excellent development platform with a highly integrated, feature rich development environment.”

“As the level of shared data in infrastructure applications increases and becomes more complex, managing the applications' data becomes extremely challenging,” said Alain Couder, president and chief executive officer, Solid Information Technology. “Our customers have benefited from the powerful combination of the Wind River General Purpose Platform and Solid's robust, carrier grade shared data manager for their applications.”

“Motorola customers depend upon a robust hardware and software ecosystem to provide a wide range of increasingly capable, standards-based products that allow them to quickly develop their added-value – which is increasingly software-based – and deliver to their customers,” said Wade Campbell, strategic marketing director, Embedded Communications Computing, Motorola. “The new capabilities being introduced by Wind River, such as the Wind River Workbench, can be used by our customers to improve their ability to meet many of today’s dynamic market challenges.”

Availability
The Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition and the Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition are available today in Early Access for select customers. Both platforms will be generally available in June 2005.

For more information on the Wind River’s Linux Platforms, please visit: www.windriver.com/products/platforms/index.html

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

• Announces Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition and latest version of Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition
• Announces Consumer Device Services Practice, further establishing its position as the only DSO provider to offer tailored consulting and design services
• Wind River named MIPS Technologies’ premier DSO solution provider
• Extends partner ecosystem to optimize the development process and foster innovative engineering

ALAMEDA, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla. — May 23, 2005 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that it is transforming the consumer device industry with the Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, based on VxWorks, Wind River’s industry-leading real-time operating system (RTOS). This latest platform is a fully integrated DSO solution that enables consumer device manufacturers to create innovative and reliable device software better, faster and at a lower cost. Wind River will be demonstrating Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition on Texas Instruments’ leading Voice over IP (VoIP) gateway platforms at its Worldwide User Conference taking place this week in Orlando, Fla. Also at the show, Wind River will showcase its newest Linux solutions, bringing more choice and flexibility to developers across all industries.

Additionally today, Wind River launched its Consumer Device Services Practice, bringing to the industry the only comprehensive, worldwide service entity that offers a full range of device design and development consulting services. The company also announced plans to expand its partnerships with leading hardware and software providers in the space in order to make it even easier for customers to get all the device development solutions they need faster and at a lower cost so they can speed time to market.

“The consumer device space is one of Wind River’s largest markets, as device software in this space has some of the most complex technical challenges and equally some of the shortest production windows of any vertical market space,” said Chris Lanfear, director, VDC software practice. “Market demand for smarter, more connected devices is almost insatiable, and consumer device manufacturers can no longer ignore the need for device software optimization solutions such as Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices.”

Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition
There is increased pressure to get new products to market fast. New complexity in the products themselves, though, can slow development, especially when engineers have to spend time integrating incompatible software, tools and processes before they can add differentiated value to their brand. Developers are increasingly turning to comprehensive DSO products and solutions, such as Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition, to help them address these major market challenges. Key features and functionality of this platform include:

• Industry leading real-time operating system support: Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices relies on the proven VxWorks operating system that provides process support and advanced memory protection, as well as configurable error management. Customers can also easily achieve fast boot up time and scalable memory footprint with their applications. Please visit today’s related Wind River VxWorks release: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2186


• Advanced middleware technologies: More and more consumer devices need to be connected securely and managed remotely. Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices provides the leading technologies for the connectivity, security, graphic displays, and managements. Support such as IPv4/v6, IPSec, firewall, WindML, Web services and SNMP is included.


• Integrated Development Environment support: Based on the Eclipse framework, Wind River Workbench provides the deep capabilities that support the entire development lifecycle from hardware bring-up to product test and manufacture. Wind River Workbench provides standardization on one common development suite across an entire organization, and is extensible and scalable so that it allows customers to meet unique project needs, and seamlessly integrates hundreds of third party plug-ins. Please visit today’s related Wind River Workbench release: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2187

General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition
The Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition is based on kernel.org and delivers an integrated platform designed for both “hard-core” Linux kernel developers as well as Linux-based application developers:

• Based on Linux 2.6.10 kernel


• Workbench 2.3 development suite support


• Commercial strength development methodology and support: leverages two decades of Wind River experience in developing, integrating, testing, and supporting device software that requires a high degree of reliability and scalability


• Flexibility in configuration and purchase options

“Innovation is the hallmark for our products, and leveraging the strengths of a company like Wind River has allowed us to focus on rapidly bringing high quality multimedia VoIP phone solutions to our customers,” said Jose Melendez, president, Commoca. “As such, we continue to turn to Wind River as a trusted provider of reliable systems solutions, based on a secure operating system, with consistent support for our development team on all phases of product development."

Wind River Consumer Device Services Practice
The Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition and the Wind River General Purpose Platform, Linux Edition products are further complimented by the Wind River Consumer Devices Services Practice, which provides consumer device customers expert outsourcing and consulting services, specifically designed to speed new product introduction while minimizing development cost.

• Performance and footprint optimization for Linux and VxWorks: More than 20 years of documented size and performance optimization for devices with highly constrained environments


• System architecture and device design: Hundreds of engineering years architecting, designing and deploying set-top boxes, VoIP phones, digital televisions, digital cameras, and multi-function printers


• Reference design, board support package (BSP) and driver optimization: Extensive experience adding functionality to multiple hardware manufacturers’ reference designs; develop, extend and maintain Wind River-compliant Linux and VxWorks BSPs and customized drivers


• Media management: Multiple implementations of designing in the ability to store, organize, and retrieve content from storage based on usage, failure prevention, and security requirements


• Power management: Ensure effective power management to meet battery, power failure recovery and environmental requirements


• GUI implementation: Design and implement a menu structure and graphical user interface, working with your branding or marketing teams; integrate 2D and 3D graphics technologies


• Software system and middleware integration: Integrate, test and support third-party provided middleware technologies; develop, define and customize APIs to enable ease of porting


• Legacy application and infrastructure migration: Port to and validate legacy software systems with new platforms


• Real-time best practices: Seasoned consultants with consumer device software expertise and hundreds of project successes consult on a global scale to extend customers' in-house capabilities

DSO Ecosystem
To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has partnered with leading hardware and software providers to address technology areas such as ARM, MIPS Technologies, Texas Instruments (TI) and Tilcon.

Today, MIPS Technologies named Wind River as its premier DSO solution provider. As part of this strategic alliance, joint customers will have access to best-in-class MIPS Technologies’ processor cores and Wind River’s comprehensive range of DSO products. The companies will align and optimize the integration of these technologies and products for the consumer entertainment, imaging, network equipment, and automotive telematics markets. For more information on today’s announcement, please see the separate Wind River and MIPS Technologies’ press release at: http://www.windriver.com/news/press/pr.html?ID=2183

“This strategic commitment to each other’s product and technology roadmaps ensures that joint customers have access to the most optimized solutions for their target devices and applications,” said John Bourgoin, president and chief executive officer, MIPS Technologies. “MIPS Technologies’ decision to more tightly align with Wind River’s Device Software Optimization strategy means that OEMs who select MIPS-based reference designs will be able to build superior products with a performance, quality and time-to-market advantage.”

Another long-standing Wind River partner, ARM, voiced its support for Wind River’s device development solutions. ARM is the industry’s leading provider of global system solutions, whose technology is at the heart of silicon system-on-chip solutions for a wide range of consumer entertainment, wireless and home networking devices. “ARM is committed to providing innovative microprocessor IP, physical IP, tools and software, that enable our partners to bring advanced digital products to market easily and on time,” said Mike Inglis, executive vice president of marketing, ARM. “We are working with Wind River to support its class-leading development systems such as Wind River Workbench, and Platforms such as the Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, across the breadth of the ARM architecture to fulfill this vision.”

As part of the Wind River Worldwide User Conference in Orlando this week, Wind River and TI will demonstrate Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, VxWorks Edition on TI’s leading VoIP gateway software and silicon solutions. Both consumer and enterprise adoptions of VoIP are expected to grow exponentially in the next five years. The combination of Wind River’s DSO solutions and TI’s market-leading VoIP chipsets allows customers to achieve higher quality, shorter time-to-market and lower total cost ownership of their devices. TI has been a Wind River partner for 12 years and has used Wind River's DSO products and solutions in a variety of TI technology platforms for IP phones, residential and enterprise VoIP gateways, Voice over DSL and Voice over Cable modems.

Also at the user conference, Wind River and Tilcon will showcase a powerful and flexible graphical VoIP phone user interface. By leveraging Tilcon’s unique architecture and Wind River Platform for Consumer Devices, OEMs and ODMs can rapidly build, simulate, customize and re-brand the phone’s entire user interface. This translates into faster time to mark

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

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• MIPS Technologies and Wind River strengthen ties by collaborating on product strategy
• Target market segments include consumer entertainment, imaging, network equipment and automotive telematics

ALAMEDA, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – May 23, 2005 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO) and MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer and business applications, today announced that MIPS Technologies has named Wind River as its premier DSO solution provider. As part of this strategic alliance, joint customers will have access to best-in-class MIPS Technologies’ processor cores and Wind River’s comprehensive range of DSO products. The companies will align and optimize the integration of these technologies and products for the consumer entertainment, imaging, network equipment, and automotive telematics markets.

Wind River offers comprehensive development tools that support the MIPS32® and MIPS64® architectures and cores through Wind River Workbench, Wind River’s Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Through this alliance, joint customers can benefit from optimized and tightly integrated, end-to-end solutions on VxWorks- and Linux-based runtime platforms. In addition to supporting existing MIPS® cores and including the recently announced 24K™ family of cores, Wind River will collaborate with MIPS Technologies on supporting new technologies such as multithreading and DSP architectures.

“This strategic commitment to each other’s product and technology roadmaps ensures that joint customers have access to the most optimized solutions for their target devices and applications,” said John Bourgoin, president and chief executive officer, MIPS Technologies. “MIPS Technologies’ decision to more tightly align with Wind River’s Device Software Optimization strategy means that OEMs who select MIPS-based reference designs will be able to build superior products with a performance, quality and time-to-market advantage.”

“Wind River and MIPS Technologies have worked together for many years, and today’s announcement signals a new era of collaboration,” said Ken Klein, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Wind River. “Wind River is committed to working with MIPS Technologies to ensure that our joint customers have more timely access to the technologies and solutions they need to create smarter devices faster, better and at lower cost.”

Wind River and MIPS Technologies have been working together for more than six years. The companies have collaborated to create end-to-end development support and superior architectures for devices including cable and DSL modems, digital set-top boxes, consumer devices and residential gateways.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

MIPS and 24KE are trademarks or registered trademarks of MIPS Technologies, Inc. in the US and other countries. All other trademarks referred to herein are the property of their respective owners.

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• Wind River and Express Logic team to provide customers with choice and flexibility as well as ease-of-use and increased responsiveness to assist in the development of highly intelligent devices on time and under budget.
• Wind River Workbench 2.3 provides an open, end-to-end device software development suite for multiple operating systems.
• Relying on Wind River's powerful integrated development environment throughout the entire device development process, Express Logic customers now benefit from having exceptional visibility and broad support for the ThreadX operating system.

ALAMEDA, Calif. and ORLANDO, Fla. — May 23, 2005 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in device software optimization (DSO), and Express Logic Inc., a worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), today announced a partnership agreement through which the two companies will collaborate to extend Wind River Workbench 2.3 to support Express Logic’s ThreadX® real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River Workbench is an Eclipse-based development suite that supports the entire device software development lifecycle, from hardware bring-up to manufacturing. Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS is a small-footprint, royalty-free RTOS widely deployed in high-volume devices for consumer electronics, wireless networking, medical equipment, and industrial automation.

By extending Wind River Workbench support to Express Logic's ThreadX operating system, Wind River is delivering on its commitment to provide truly interoperable tools for multiple operating systems. With this announcement, ThreadX becomes the latest operating system to be supported by Wind River Workbench, in addition to Wind River’s VxWorks RTOS, Wind River Linux, Red Hat Linux, MontaVista Linux and the standard Kernel.org Linux.

"When our customers invest in ThreadX, they expect an easy-to-use, highly advanced, dynamic solution, and we know Wind River's customers expect the same from its device software solutions," said John Carbone, vice president of marketing, Express Logic. "By incorporating the ThreadX RTOS with Wind River Workbench, we can now offer our joint customers a tightly integrated, complete solution that addresses the full lifecycle of their device software development needs."

"Wind River is committed to helping its customers develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably," said Rob McCammon, director of product management for Wind River development suite, Wind River. "We recognize the value of the ThreadX operating system for the device software space across all vertical markets, and embrace the opportunity to extend Wind River Workbench to support it as part of our ongoing promise to provide standardized and optimized device development solutions to our customers."

To learn more about Wind River Workbench, please visit: www.windriver.com/products/development_tools/ide/wind_river_workbench

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms tightly integrate a rich set of market-leading operating systems, development tools and middleware with services to provide a complete foundation that meets the specific requirements of a vertical market. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. 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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

ThreadX is a registered trademark of Express Logic, Inc. NetX, FileX, CANX, USBX, preemption-threshold, picokernel, and UDP fast path technology, are trademarks of Express Logic, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders.

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• Wind River and Wipro aligning DSO products and services to provide customers with latest device technology and continuous IT and design support
• Companies will leverage technology and services capabilities to create mutual business opportunities

ALAMEDA, Calif. and BANGALORE, India — May 23, 2005 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), and Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), today announced a strategic partnership that will more closely align Wind River's leading DSO products and device design services with Wipro's product engineering services portfolio. Joint customers of Wind River and Wipro will now have access to a larger team of development engineers trained on the latest Wind River DSO product lines, thereby enabling them to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. This strategic partnership furthers the long standing bi-lateral customer relationship between the two companies which began in 1998.

"This strategic alliance will enable us to be more closely aligned with Wind River's product roadmap, giving us a distinct competitive advantage over other service providers," said Rajesh Mishra, vice president, Embedded & Product Engineering Solutions, Wipro Technologies. "Wipro's insight and deep knowledge of Wind River's products, along with our extensive knowledge in various embedded domains, will expedite development and deployment of Wind River's new platforms."

Wind River has provided world-class device design services for more than 20 years, and this partnership will enable our customers to take advantage of a global services capability that spans Wind River's design services focused primarily on operating system, middleware and hardware development to Wipro's services focused on device software application and turnkey reference design development.

"The combination of Wind River Professional Services and Wipro provides our joint clients with a one-stop-shop for device design outsourcing," said Damian Artt, vice president of worldwide professional services, Wind River. "From concept to production, customers can now tap into a deeper pool of talent and expertise to address all their device development needs."

Under the terms of the agreement, Wind River will provide extensive training to Wipro's engineering team on Wind River's DSO product line including Wind River Workbench and the Wind River Platforms. Additionally, the partnership will enable Wipro to influence Wind River's product roadmap and will create new business opportunities for both companies via cross-referrals. Wind River and Wipro's joint customers will benefit from the tighter alignment between Wipro's industry-leading design services and Wind River's industry-leading DSO technology solutions.

Wipro Technologies is the world's largest independent provider of R&D services. Wipro provides embedded design services for customers in automotive, consumer electronics, avionics, telecom and networking, many of whom use Wind River platforms and tools for their products.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other marks used herein are the property of the respective owners.

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• Launches Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices, bringing more choice and flexibility to telematics developers
• Announces Automotive Device Services Practice leveraging 175+ Wind River services consultants and 20+ years of device design expertise to meet the needs of automotive customers
• Extends partner ecosystem to optimize the development process and foster innovative engineering

TELEMATICS DETROIT, LIVONIA, Mich. — May 16, 2005 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that it is transforming the automotive industry with the launch of Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices, a fully integrated enterprise-wide solution that enables automotive manufacturers to create innovative and reliable telematics solutions better, faster, more reliably and at a lower cost. Also announced today, Wind River launched its Automotive Device Services Practice, a set of industry-specific services that combines Wind River’s 20-plus years of experience with automotive standards to bring its comprehensive set of proven best practices to automotive customers. Additionally, the company announced plans to expand its partnerships with key hardware and software providers in the space. Today’s announcements come in response to a market shift wherein telematics providers are demanding better ways to optimize the development process to keep costs down and increase innovation. Wind River executives will address this shift in keynote and panel sessions at this year’s Telematics Detroit.

The automotive telematics market is rapidly converging with the consumer and networking device markets, and automotive device manufacturers are under increasing pressure to support the demand for more complex software. To keep up with this demand, automotive device manufacturers are forced to deliver complex devices faster, while maintaining quality and reliability. In order to be successful, developers are choosing to adopt a DSO strategy that enables innovation, flexibility and cost controls within tight development windows.

"Wind River is bringing its strength in integrated development systems to the telematics platform market," said Dr. Egil Juliussen, principal analyst and co-founder, Telematics Research Group. "The proliferation of computer-based systems in the automotive market requires development systems that support multiple hardware and software platforms. Wind River’s device software solution is taking it one step closer in making these development systems a reality."

Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices
Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices offers telematics developers a DSO platform that combines the industry leading VxWorks ™ real time operating system, the industry’s premier open, device software development suite, Wind River Workbench and essential multimedia and connectivity middleware. Available in June 2005, Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices brings unique value to the automotive industry and addresses the pain points telematics developers face by offering more choice, flexibility and tighter product integration. Key features and functionality include:

• Industry Leading Real-Time Operating System Support: Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices relies on the proven VxWorks operating system which provides process support and advanced memory protection, as well as configurable error management. Support for standards, graphics support through WindML, increased POSIX compliance and TIPC is included.


• Advanced Automotive Connectivity: Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices provides drivers and protocols for devices connected to other in-vehicle devices, consumer electronics devices and the network infrastructure. Support such as CAN, USB, WiFi and IPv4/IPv6 is included.


• Network Security Support: Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices includes an extensive suite of security protocols to protect network data. This protocol suite includes implementations of IPsec and IKE, Firewall and NAT, Radius Client, 802.11i wireless security, SSL, and Digital Certificates. These protocols can be used in any combination to provide secure applications that require access control, authentication, privacy, or integrity.


• Integrated Development Environment Support: Based upon the Eclipse framework, Wind River Workbench provides the deep capabilities that support the entire development life-cycle from hardware bring-up to product test and manufacture. Workbench provides standardization on one common development suite across an entire organization, and is extensible and scalable so that it allows customers to meet unique project needs, and seamlessly integrates hundreds of third-party plug-ins.


• Extensive Partner Technologies: To ensure a complete range of integrated technologies, Wind River has partnered with leading hardware and software providers to address technology areas such as speech recognition and text-to-speech, Java, advanced graphics capabilities, Bluetooth and 1394.

Wind River Automotive Devices Services Practice
As part of its comprehensive automotive platform solution, Wind River now offers an Automotive Devices Services Practice which provides its automotive telematics customers expert outsourcing and consulting services, specifically designed to help telematics providers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down.

• Device Design: Includes system requirements development, hardware and software high-level architecture design, technology assessments, and partial and complete design outsourcing to help ensure a project’s success.


• BSP and Driver Optimization: Includes development and maintenance of Wind River-compliant Linux and VxWorks BSPs and customized drivers.


• Software System and Middleware Integration: Integrate, test and support third-party provided middleware technologies to the platform.


• Legacy Application and Infrastructure Migration: Port to and validate legacy software systems with new platforms.


• Real-Time Best Practices: Seasoned consultants with deep automotive device software expertise and dozens of project success, consult on a global scale to extend customers’ in-house capabilities.

"More than ever, our telematics customers are demanding highly intelligent, state-of-the-art products," said Ralf Loeffert, director of System Software at Siemens VDO. "Wind River is the DSO provider that offers the full breadth and depth of expert design consulting services that we require to help us develop and deliver truly superior products while staying on schedule and controlling costs."

DSO Ecosystem
Wind River is deepening its partner ecosystem to include a wider range of leading software and hardware suppliers to expand its portfolio of best-of-breed device development solutions and services. As part of this effort, Wind River is announcing a collaborative initiative with Freescale Semiconductor, the world’s leading supplier of semiconductors to the automotive market. As part of this initiative, the companies plan to provide a joint hardware and DSO technology reference design to the automotive telematics device market.

The reference design, being demonstrated at Detroit Telematics, includes Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices, VxWorks Edition and Wind River Workbench which will provide integrated support of Freescale’s Media5200 hardware platforms, as well as its newly released MPC5200B processor. This joint solution will provide customers with more choice, as well as improved integration and flexibility to help create complex, intelligent devices on time and under budget.

"This is a great opportunity to build on our relationship with Wind River as we continue to raise the bar in providing state-of-the-art device development solutions for the automotive industry," said Anand Ramamoorthy, manager of Infotainment, Multimedia and Telematics Division for Freescale. "With Wind River’s automotive platforms and development tools supporting our evaluation boards and MPC5200B, our joint customers will have a world-class solution specifically designed to meet automotive developers’ individual needs."

See today’s related release announced by Freescale Semiconductor at: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/homepage.jsp?nodeId=09&tid=FSH

Wind River boasts partnerships with many of the industry’s leading software and hardware technology providers, which affords customers the choices they need to be successful in a highly competitive and crowded market. To see an expansive list of partners expressing resounding support for Wind River’s success in the automotive space and for Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/products/platforms/automotive/partner.html

Wind River and key ecosystem partners including Freescale will be demonstrating three automotive reference designs at Detroit Telematics that will integrate critical technologies from some of the automotive industry’s leading software providers. Wind River’s reference designs will offer a solid platform for both hardware and software engineers to use in evaluating and prototyping designs that closely parallel final applications, ultimately reducing development time and accelerating time to market. Full demonstration details include:

• 3-D Telematics Navigation Application: Cutting edge OpenGL graphics middleware allows telematics vendors to create low power, low cost, high performance 3-D navigation systems. The demo will incorporate ALT Software’s optimized OpenGL driver for VxWorks, running on Freescale’s Lite5200 board, and the Fujitsu Coral P ASIC.


• Automotive Dashboard with MP3 and CD Player: A rich graphical Human Machine Interface (HMI) with working MP3 and CD players. This reference design allows developers to create rich modular and customizable infotainment systems. The demo will incorporate Tilcon’s comprehensive and rich set of GUI libraries and widgets, Datalight’s reliable file system and flash memory driver, a full featured board support package, and a sample multimedia framework all integrated on Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices and running on Freescale’s Media5200 automotive hardware platform.


• Automotive Integrated Applications Framework: Vendors experience improved time to market and cost advantages by pre-integrating a full range of automotive components such as advanced graphics, radio, CD, DVD and camera. Wind River’s flexible, modular and open architecture allows developers to build full featured production systems at a fraction of the time normally required. The Lectronix applications framework is built using Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices and uses custom hardware based on Freescale’s MPC5200 processor.

"Whether they know it or not, manufacturers have become software companies overnight. With so much innovation and convergence affecting the automotive telematics industry, manufacturers need to take a completely different approach to developing intelligent, connected devices," said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer, Wind River. "Wind River plays a crucial role in helping our customers keep up with the latest advancements, by not only providing a secure, standards-based device software solution but also by teaming with other industry leaders to offer the world-class products, services, and support telematics developers need to be successful."

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River Platforms are pre-integrated, fully standardized enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product.

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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind River and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Third party marks and brands are the property of their respective holders.

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