ALAMEDA, Calif., March 21 -- Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND - News), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced the launch of a strategic initiative to drive standardization and widespread adoption of multicore architecture and solutions in the device market. Wind River's Multicore Processing (MCP) initiative combines the company's thought leadership in standards and open source organizations with the delivery, deployment and global support of innovative software, and integration with leading semiconductor technologies. A critical element of Wind River's DSO strategy, this initiative is targeted at providing device manufacturers with the software solutions they need to build devices that can leverage the performance benefits of multicore hardware components. In order to bring this strategy to market, Wind River continues to work closely with leading technology companies including ARM, Broadcom and Freescale.

Multicore processor designs combine two or more independent processor cores into a single unit, often on one integrated circuit. With today's exponential advances in processor speed and traditional single-core processor designs reaching their limits, intense competition is pushing manufacturers to use multicore designs in order to continue delivering exponential performance improvements. While multiprocessing enables customers to improve performance and scalability, increase efficiency, and lower costs, it also introduces increased levels of complexity. The device industry is therefore facing new obstacles as it attempts to leverage multicore advancements, including more complex software architecture models with inadequate development tools and lack of industry standards.

With over 25 years of experience in the Device Software Optimization market, Wind River is uniquely positioned to unlock the value in multicore processing from a software platform perspective. As such, Wind River is acting as the central point of the industry's movement towards enabling multicore devices to get to market faster, with better quality and enhanced functionality.

The Five Key Components of Wind River's Multicore Processing Initiative are:

1) Driving Industry Standardization By Chairing Multiple Standards Bodies
Wind River is the only company to have a board member on both the Multicore Association and Eclipse.org. Wind River's thought leadership is linking the development and run-time requirements of multicore devices through the Device Software Development Platform project at Eclipse, and the Multicore Association Debug API. Standardization across the entire DSO life-cycle ensures that device manufacturers have flexibility and choice for their software platform needs. Wind River also works with various other industry standards groups including the TIPC Consortium, OSDL Mobile Linux Initiative and Kernel.org.

2) Enabling Rapid Device Prototyping and Debugging Through Multicore Optimized Development Tools
Multicore based devices offer many advantages over single core devices, but are inherently more complex. As a result, software optimization for multicore devices requires a different design center with regards to application interaction, performance and concurrency. As device manufacturers implement their initial multicore designs, optimized tools can reduce time spent in prototyping and debugging, enabling faster time to market. Wind River's Eclipse-based Workbench development suite provides advanced multicore development and debugging capabilities while supporting both heterogeneous operating systems and/or heterogeneous processor architectures. In addition, Wind River's Workbench Diagnostics, a dynamic debugging tool, is designed to pinpoint time consuming, extremely hard to find multiprocessing problems like race-conditions.

3) Delivering Run-Time Optimization With Choice in Operating Environments and Deployment Options
Several strategies exist regarding the class and type of the operating system for a multicore processing-based device. Device application and usage may call for different design decisions to best allocate and manage system resources such as processors, memory and peripherals. Wind River provides a robust, flexible choice in operating environments supporting SMP, AMP and Virtualized Operating System options based upon both Linux and VxWorks. By delivering an RTOS-based platform and a Linux-based platform, Wind River enables device manufacturers to feel confident about their vendor selection and risk mitigation as their device design evolves over time and may require a different operating system technology.

4) Providing an Open, Integrated Multicore and Multiprocessing Partner Ecosystem
As the leading Device Software Optimization advocate for multicore device designs, Wind River collaborates with semiconductor vendors, including Broadcom and Freescale, on market-specific platforms to support the latest and most widely used architectures and processors. These partnerships provide integrated reference designs, COTS boards, and board support packages, in particular for the emerging multicore processors. Additionally, Wind River has developed an ecosystem of software partners, including ALT Software, Datalight, IP Infusion, Kuka Controls, Solid Information Technology and Tilcon that extend the capability of these market-specific platforms. Wind River's Partner ecosystem enables device manufacturers the ability to select a multicore hardware platform vendor and rest easy knowing that Wind River software platforms will be available.

5) Speeding Time to Market Via Direct Access to Multiprocessing Experts via Global Services and Support
Customers have access to Wind River's team of engineers with experience delivering design, integration, and optimization services tailored to the needs of multiprocessing applications. These experts act as a resource to extend the customer's own engineering team's capabilities. Additionally, Wind River offers education and training courses on all of its platforms so customers have access to a myriad of support channels as needed. Wind River's multicore customer enabling services provide customers with a proven, trusted partner for reducing risk and increasing the likelihood of meeting design schedules.

"One of the biggest obstacles to widespread multicore technology adoption in the device industry is the lack of a software ecosystem that is optimized to support the advantages from this next-generation of processors," said John Bruggeman, Chief Marketing Officer, Wind River. "Wind River is stepping up to address all of the complexities device manufacturers are now encountering in today's hyper-competitive environment, as they move to adopt this transformative technology. We are committed to leading standards bodies and providing standards-based technologies to ensure the choice, flexibly and ease-of-use that will ultimately enable the widespread adoption of multicore."

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 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 800-872-4977.

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ALAMEDA, Calif. - March 20, 2006 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that it has acquired privately-held Interpeak AB of Stockholm, Sweden. Interpeak is the leading provider of networking, security and mobility middleware software that enables next-generation devices to connect securely to the Internet. This acquisition broadens Wind River's device software platform with complementary, high-quality, secure networking technology and strengthens the company's ability to provide device manufacturers with increased platform scalability and expanded safety and mission critical certification support.

Under the terms of the agreement, Wind River paid approximately $20 million in cash and restricted stock for Interpeak. Wind River anticipates this acquisition will be mildly accretive in Fiscal Year 2007 and is not changing its NonGAAP financial guidance for Q1 or the Fiscal Year that was given on March 8th, 2006 in its fiscal year 2006 earnings release. Wind River's Fiscal Year 2007 ends January 31, 2007.

"Wind River and Interpeak are DSO companies that share a cohesive philosophy and offer complementary technology to a common installed base," said Ken Klein, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Wind River. "As the explosive growth of connected devices continues, device manufacturers will require a high-quality, secure networking stack that can run universally on both our RTOS and Linux based platforms. Interpeak's secure, certifiable, networking expertise will enhance Wind River's DSO strategy for delivering a standardized device software development approach that provides customers with the choice and flexibility to build any type of connected device."

Interpeak offers numerous products that securely connect next-generation devices to the Internet. Interpeak's networking, security and mobility products help developers add functionality and improve device and equipment quality across a wide range of markets including wireless devices, wireless infrastructure, network infrastructure and safety and mission critical devices. Alongside Wind River, Interpeak's extensive expertise in IPv6, routing, wireless and mobility technologies will enable device and equipment manufacturers to deliver their products to market more quickly and offer the latest networking and security capabilities.

By integrating Interpeak's secure networking technology, Wind River will provide its customers with broader functionality including a secure networking middleware stack that can run on either Wind River VxWorks or Linux based platforms; increased scalability to support secure networking requirements for even the smallest footprint devices and expanded safety and mission critical certification support.

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.

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including those relating to the anticipated impact of the acquisition on Wind Rivers financial results in 2007, the anticipated growth in the marketplace for connected devices and the needs of manufacturers of such devices, the expected benefits of the acquisition to Wind River generally and, more particularly, to its DSO strategy, and the expected benefits of a combined product offering to Wind River's customers. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "projects," "intends," "plans," "believes" and "estimates," variations of such words and similar expressions are also intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include but are not limited to the success of Wind River's implementation of its new and current products, business models and market strategies, the ability of Wind River to successfully integrate the combined companies and their products and technologies, the ability of Wind River to address rapidly changing technology and markets and to deliver its products on a timely basis, the ability of Wind River to retain key Interpeak personnel following the acquisition, the ability of Wind River customers to sell products that include the company's software, the impact of competitive products and pricing, weakness in the economy generally or in the technology sector specifically, the success of the company's strategic relationships and the impact of other costs and risk factors detailed in Wind River's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2006, its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Wind River undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law.
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ALAMEDA, Calif., March 14, 2006 -- Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: WIND - News), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that Wind River® Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition now provides architecture support for the new Dual Core Intel® Xeon® Processor LV 2.0 GHz. By supporting Intel's next-generation dual-core technology, Wind River now provides Linux customers with an out-of-the-box, dual-core ready device software platform for creating new networking applications such as wireless infrastructure, IP telephony and enterprise networking.

Wind River Platform for Network Equipment is a DSO solution that enables companies to decrease time-to-market and improve quality for a variety of devices, from expensive chassis-based carrier-class equipment to resource-constrained, price-sensitive consumer electronics products. Based on a Carrier Grade Linux distribution, Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, has been integrated with many of the industry's most popular telecom boards, making it an ideal fit for the telecommunications and high-end data networking markets. It supports the emerging PICMG 3.x Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) specification and various high-availability functions, and includes a standards-based interprocess communication (IPC) mechanism that connects the Linux and VxWorks editions of the platform.

"As Wind River's DSO customers demand higher levels of power and performance, Wind River's Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition provides a commercial grade solution," said John Bruggeman, CMO of Wind River. "Built upon the Linux 2.6 kernel along with Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux 3.0 specification, the performance benefits of Wind River's Linux Platform and Intel's new dual-core processor, provide our joint customers with a standards-based solution which will optimize their networking applications."

"Our new dual core processor provides significant improvements in performance per watt for customers who are developing demanding network access applications," said Ton Steenman, general manager of Intel's Infrastructure Processor Division. "And the availability of out-of-the box, dual-core ready software, like the Wind River Linux-based device software platform, means our customers can speed development of higher performing networking solutions based on industry standards such as AdvancedTCA and Carrier-Grade Linux."

As part of its complete network infrastructure solution, Wind River now offers a Network Infrastructure Services Practice, with professional outsourcing and consulting services specifically designed to help device manufacturers meet strict market deadlines while keeping development costs down. Services include device design, network management and security, network compliance testing, wireless networking support, layer 2 Ethernet switching, BSP/LSP and device driver optimization, legacy application and infrastructure migration, Linux migration and real-time best practices.

Wind River is an Associate Member of the Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solutions providers.

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 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 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.

Intel and Intel Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries

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