ALAMEDA, Calif. — July 31, 2006 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced that Boeing has selected Wind River® Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition, the industry’s leading Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) run-time, which includes Wind River® Workbench, the company’s Eclipse-based development suite, for the P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) mission system. This expansion of Wind River Linux into the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry demonstrates the company’s continued position as the leading DSO provider to A&D.

The P-8A is a long-range anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft. It possesses an advanced mission system for maximum interoperability in battle space. Capable of broad-area, maritime, and littoral operations, the P-8A is expected to improve training, deployment, and operation of the U.S. Navy's maritime patrol and reconnaissance forces. The U.S. Navy plans to purchase 108 P-8As to replace its fleet of P-3 aircraft and expects initial operational capability in 2013.

As part of an extensive evaluation process, Boeing considered several commercial Linux solutions for its advanced mission system before ultimately selecting Wind River’s open-source solution based on a commercial-grade quality Carrier Grade Linux distribution.

Key was complete visibility into the Linux build. To that end, Wind River’s Linux platform starts with the pristine, unmodified 2.6 kernel downloadable from kernel.org. It ships with complete source code, just as it's delivered in the open-source world. Wind River’s build methodology enables customers to customize and add differentiating value to their Linux build without ever losing sight of the clear path back to this pristine source. Boeing can, therefore, confidently build unique, competitive products while also maintaining their citizenship in the open-source community.

The deal also includes Wind River Workbench, the company’s device software development suite, on which Boeing has standardized for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System program. Wind River Workbench addresses the challenges individual developers and project teams face by increasing productivity, enabling collaboration between hardware and software developers, and meeting diverse development needs across an enterprise. Workbench offers an open, unifying, Eclipse-based framework that provides seamless integration of third-party tools developed to meet specific needs and also supports multiple target operating systems, including VxWorks 6, VxWorks 653, VxWorks MILS, VxWorks 5.5, Linux, and third party / proprietary operating systems such as Express Logic's ThreadX. Wind River also offers a variety of independent tools to assist device software developers from hardware bring-up to application development, enabling increased productivity and on-time, high-quality project delivery.

“Wind River is emerging as the go-to vendor for commercial Linux in the intensely-competitive and standards-driven A&D industry,” said Chip Downing, senior aerospace and defense marketing manager at Wind River. “The P-8A program will now have a commercial-grade quality Carrier Grade Linux distribution, delivered and supported by the largest DSO provider - Wind River. Our solution will also provide the program with the industry-leading open, extensible Wind River Workbench development suite, integrated and validated run-time technologies, as well as the most proven and reliable partner in this application space.”

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage 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 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.

 

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Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif. – July 31, 2006 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced the latest release of its industry-leading Commercial Grade Linux product line with specific new features geared towards consumer device and network equipment manufacturers. At its foundation is a pristine, unmodified, stable version of the Linux 2.6.14 kernel. Available today, the Linux editions of the Wind River® General Purpose Platform, Platform for Consumer Devices and Platform for Network Equipment ship with the latest version of the company’s Eclipse-based device software development suite, Wind River® Workbench 2.5 and include significant new enhancements to runtime performance and footprint size, networking protocols, security, file systems and hardware architectures.

This release, Wind River’s fourth release based on the 2.6 kernel, clearly positions Wind River as a Linux distribution leader. The 2.6.14 Linux kernel, released to the community last October, includes significant improvements and dozens of patches that have been applied since the 2.6.10 kernel release, on which Wind River’s previous Linux platforms were based. In addition to the advancements made in the kernel, Wind River leveraged additional patches, packages, and drivers developed in the open source community and integrated them into the distribution. These include hardware-specific drivers for additional processors and boards, updates to development tools, real-time performance and scheduling-related patches, high resolution timer patches, security, networking updates to IPv6, IPsec, and Mobile IPv6, the uClibc library to reduce footprint and memory consumption, and dynamic power management. Leveraging Wind River’s 25 years of commercial software expertise in the device industry, Wind River Commercial Grade Linux platforms are engineered, integrated, tested, validated, and supported just as rigorously as the company’s VxWorks products.

Wind River’s Linux platforms start with the pristine, unmodified kernel downloaded from kernel.org. The platforms ship with all source code just as it is available in the open-source community. A unique and intuitive build methodology enables device manufacturers to customize and add differentiating value to their Linux build without ever losing sight of the clear path back to original source. All patches and packages in Wind River’s Linux platforms are available in open source just as they are found in the distribution. This approach helps ensure that customers are able to fully leverage the benefits of open source and will not be orphaned by using patches that have not been submitted back into open source. Wind River also packages over 50 binary reference platforms ranging from SOCs for handheld devices to COTS-based ATCA boards.

“This release addresses two key growth segments for Linux: consumer devices and network equipment,” said Glenn Seiler, senior manager for Linux Platforms at Wind River. “Our key market segments include mobile handsets and digital media devices in the consumer space and Carrier Grade Linux based equipment in the networking segment. Wind River is in a favorable position to address these high-growth markets with our commercial grade quality distribution that is based on the open standards adopted by those segments, our broad ecosystem of hardware and software partners and our industry-leading services and support organizations.”

Wind River® Platform for Consumer Devices, Linux Edition 1.3, is an ideal fit for customers who require the specific Linux capabilities of mobile handheld, consumer electronics, and home entertainment device development projects. This Linux platform combines a high-performance Linux kernel with a Linux distribution that offers device manufacturers a fast-boot, small-footprint run-time environment ideal for memory-constrained devices. Wind River optimized this release to specifically serve as a framework for Mobile handheld reference profiles. As part of its industry-leading partner ecosystem, Wind River worked closely with major handheld hardware vendors such as Intel, Freescale and others, to provide this run-time profile on their hardware platforms. Wind River additionally maintains an unparalleled software partner ecosystem geared towards the demands of mobile handhelds, including advanced graphics, user interfaces, base band communications and smart phone applications such as Web browsers, email and power management capabilities. Wind River is working closely with organizations such as the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) in its Mobil Linux Initiative to help drive open standards for a Linux-based mobile phone platform.

“With increasing demand for Linux on consumer devices and in telecommunications infrastructure, Wind River provides an attractive platform that both supports the very latest specifications and provides seamless integration among telecommunications platforms,” said Bill Weinberg, senior technology analyst at OSDL. “As Linux adoption continues to advance, we expect Wind River will continue to be a driving force in OSDL working groups and in the marketplace, by collaborating to build the next generation of products and services.”

With Wind River® Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition 1.3, the company is one of the first vendors to register with the OSDL Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 3.2 specification. CGL 3.2 is a key specification for equipment providers to use as the base of their Linux solutions. This new platform combines a high-performance kernel with powerful networking applications, file systems, management, and security features together with CGL availability and serviceability features, support for popular ATCA telecom systems, and a highly-productive cross-development infrastructure. In addition, the platform follows the guidelines for prioritized functionality recently defined by the SCOPE Alliance’s Linux Operating System profile. Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition supports all major COTS hardware platforms and enables networking equipment manufacturers to deliver CGL with industry-standard ATCA hardware. The platform is optimized for a wide range of networking applications including control and management system software in 3G wireless infrastructure systems and IMS, WiMax elements, Fixed-Mobile convergence, soft switches, media gateways, DSLAMs, cable modem head-ends, and multi-service switches.

The updated Wind River Commercial Grade Linux platforms are tightly integrated with the company’s latest version of the premier, Eclipse-based device software development suite, Wind River® Workbench 2.5, and are backed by Wind River's twenty-plus years of device software experience, a broad network of hardware and software partners, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team. Wind River’s development suite offers customers complete development lifecycle solutions from board bring-up to application development to testing. Based on Eclipse, the Workbench development suite can be easily extended to include open source and in-house plug-in tools.

Availability
Wind River Linux 1.3 editions of the Wind River General Purpose Platform, Platform for Consumer Devices and Platform for Network Equipment are shipping today.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage 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 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.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif. — July 31, 2006 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced the release of over 300,000 lines of code to the Eclipse Foundation to help make the restrictions associated with closed, proprietary developer tools a thing of the past. The contributions are being made to four Eclipse projects: the C/C++ Development Tools (CDT) Project, the Platform Project, and both the Target Management (TM) and Device Debugging (DD) subprojects within the Device Software Development Platform (DSDP) Project. Importantly, many of the contributions made today will benefit not only device software developers, but will mutually benefit enterprise and desktop C and C++ software developers by accelerating the maturity of the open, industry standard development framework.

“As a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, Wind River is committed to making an ongoing investment in Eclipse through our technology and engineering capital, as well as financial support,” said Steven Heintz, director of product management for developer tools at Wind River. “Eclipse is built on companies leading by giving. With this contribution, Wind River is demonstrating our belief in the long-term benefits of guiding the DSO industry towards an open development tools framework.”

After taking up citizenship in the Eclipse open-source community, Wind River helped to establish and now plays a key leadership role in the DSDP project in order to bring the flexibility and power of open standards and Eclipse technologies to the DSO industry. Since joining Eclipse, Wind River engineering has invested hundreds of person-years integrating device debugging capabilities into the Core Eclipse platform and subprojects within DSDP to help build the most advanced, exceptionally broad environment for device software developers.

The code contributed by Wind River is derived from the latest version of the company’s commercial, Eclipse-based device software development suite, Wind River® Workbench 2.5, also released today. The Eclipse framework makes it possible for developers to leverage more than 400 commercial and open source plug-ins that aid in the design, development, testing and support of device software. Major hardware, software, and device manufacturing companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Motorola and Texas Instruments, have recently turned to Eclipse and the DSDP project as a platform to develop their commercial tools offerings.

Fundamental to Wind River’s close involvement with Eclipse is an unwavering commitment to frequently reevaluate the commercial elements of its developer tools product portfolio and identify technologies that may be appropriate for future contributions. As new contributions help accelerate the commoditization of certain device software development tools, especially broad and standard processes, Wind River will continue to make engineering investments in plug-ins and tools that integrate deeply with a device operating system and accelerate development by automating or abstracting complex development and testing tasks. A widely adopted industry standard tools framework allows Wind River and other independent software vendors to provide higher level, more specialized commercial tools that address the complexities of bringing different types of devices to market faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably.

“The Eclipse Foundation relies on the contributions of its members to provide an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director, The Eclipse Foundation. “As a Strategic Developer Member, Wind River demonstrates community leadership by contributing code, business and engineering expertise, advocacy, and financial support to benefit the Eclipse ecosystem and the software industry at-large.”

Wind River will continue to offer unique differentiation in the company’s commercial Wind River Workbench product by providing tools that enable visual configuration of a device operating system and middleware, tools to visually analyze the performance of a running system, software diagnostics tools that accelerate system level testing and advanced multi-core debugging capabilities. New to Wind River Workbench 2.5 are significant enhancements that help customers rapidly develop and test devices based on Wind River’s Linux-based platforms. With Wind River Workbench, developers can “see inside” a running target device to assess system behavior and performance. This functionality shortens edit-compile-debug cycles, for faster time-to-market and higher-quality devices.

Availability
Wind River® Workbench 2.5 is shipping today. To download an evaluation copy of Wind River Workbench, visit: http://evaluations.windriver.com. Specific information about Wind River’s code contributions to the C/C++ Development Tools Platform, Target Management, and Device Debugging projects within the Eclipse Foundation is available at http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/.

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage 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 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.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

ALAMEDA, Calif. – July 26, 2006 – Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today demonstrated a complete end-to-end multicore solution optimized for the Freescale MPC8641D Dual Core Processor at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF) in Orlando, Florida. Wind River optimized the solution by tailoring its industry-leading device software including: commercial-grade integrated development suite, on-chip debugging tools, run-time environments, interprocessor communication protocols, and middleware technologies for the development of devices running the MPC8641D Dual Core Processor built on Power Architecture™ technology.

Multicore solutions from Freescale and Wind River help remove the complexity associated with developing a software solution on a multicore silicon system while taking full advantage of the performance benefits of multicore hardware components, ultimately enabling customers to significantly reduce time-to-market.

“Multiprocessing and multicore technology are gateways to the vast improvements in device functionality needed for today’s highly competitive networking, communications and pervasive computing industries,” said Rick Morris, vice president of worldwide design for Freescale’s Networking and Computing Systems Group. “Wind River and Freescale deliver commercial-grade, end-to-end solutions to the market that enable companies to develop, run and manage device software faster, better, at lower overall cost, and more reliably, without increasing power consumption.”

The solution demonstrated today by Wind River capitalizes on the ability of the MPC8641D to support flexible software implementations, both symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and homogenous and heterogeneous asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). Wind River provides a robust, flexible choice of operating environment by supporting SMP and AMP options based on Linux and VxWorks. By providing both an RTOS-based platform and a Linux-based platform, Wind River gives customers confidence and risk mitigation for their design as their multiprocessing requirements change over time.

Running two copies of VxWorks – one for each core – the solution utilizes the maximum processing capability of homogenous AMP. The processes running on each core communicate via the Transparent Interprocess Communication (TIPC) protocol using shared memory as the bearer in order to coordinate tasks and resources. The TIPC protocol is specially designed for intra cluster communication, where “intra cluster” refers to any type of distributed multiprocessor system. Tomas Evensen and Maarten Koning of Wind River lead the Multicore Association’s TIPC Working Group and stand at the cutting edge of design innovation and industry standardization in multicore. TIPC gives designers the flexibility to divide the functionality of their device in ways that best optimizes their application and allows the designer to assign distinct tasks to each processor core, thus delivering an optimal software and hardware environment.

To meet the needs of developers implementing Freescale’s MPC8641D-based designs, Wind River provides a variety of products that support multiprocessing and multicore technologies, including the Wind RiverÒ Workbench development suite. Software optimization for multicore devices requires a different design center with regard 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 offers a set of tools that provide advanced multicore development and debugging capabilities while supporting both heterogeneous operating systems and/or heterogeneous processor architectures.

Wind River’s development suite enables multicore debugging with a single emulator connection by working in conjunction with Wind River's newest JTAG hardware run control device, Wind River ICE. Through Wind River’s JTAG server technology, optimized to the specifications of the Freescale MPC8641D, developers can debug multiple cores at the same time, whether they are on the same chip or in the same system. Wind River Workbench’s multicontext debugging capability accentuates the capability of Wind River ICE by providing developers with a debug context for each core connection, as well as key debug capabilities like cross-correlated breakpoints. This enables developers to start and stop individual processors or the entire system when a specified event occurs.

Wind River Workbench integrates the industry’s most powerful test and visualization tools to monitor, analyze, and debug at every phase of development, providing early detection of show-stopping defects and increasing the overall quality and reliability of your product. Workbench is backed by Wind River’s 20-plus years of device software industry experience, a world-class support organization, and a specialized professional services team.

Wind River launched a strategic initiative in March to drive standardization and widespread adoption of multicore architecture and solutions in the device market. Wind River's Multicore Processing (MCP) Initiative applies the company’s leadership in standards development and open-source software to leading semiconductor manufacturers’ multicore technologies to create and deploy innovative multicore solutions. Today’s announcement with Freescale furthers all five components of the initiative: Industry standardization; multicore optimized development tools; run-time optimization with choice of operating environment; open, integrated partner ecosystem; and access to multiprocessing experts via global services and support.

“Wind River is the leading DSO vendor for multicore development because we offer customers the flexibility to optimize to their specific requirements for each device,” said Tomas Evensen, chief technology officer, Wind River. “Applications today require more and more processing power within existing system power budgets – the combination of the MPC8641D with Wind River’s complete end-to-end multicore solution puts the ‘power’ back in the hands of developers.”

 

About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop, run and manage 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 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.

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Jessica Miller
Global Corporate Communications

Cobham Air Refuelling & Auxiliary Mission Equipment and Wind River have
announced the use of Wind River’s safety-critical VxWorks real-time operating
system (RTOS) in the 900E series air refuelling pods to be used on the A330MRTT
and A400M.



The 905E/A330 and 908E/A400M wing pods are fourth-generation systems
incorporating over 50 years of design, integration and refuelling expertise. The
wing pod is “role-equipment” and contains a software-based digital control
system.

The safety-critical edition of VxWorks conforms to the DO-178B standard and
runs the Refuelling Control Unit (RCU) inside the refuelling pod. The RCU
controls the primary functions of the refuelling pod, including safety and
mission-critical applications.

The RCU is responsible for controlling the electric hose-reel motor and
brakes, as well as the ram air turbine that supplies power to the fuel pump. The
unit also monitors hose-reel speed, fuel pressure, turbine speed and up to a
dozen sensors in the self-contained refuelling pod. Input from the tanker
aircraft regarding airspeed and weight-on-wheels status is fed to the RCU via
the external interface standard (ARINC, 1553 or optical, as required).

The RCU runs continuous Built-In Testing (BIT) diagnostics for enhanced
mission availability. It also provides the operator with warning, caution and
advisory information at the control panel. Finally, the RCU is responsible for
arming the Emergency Functions Unit (EFU), a unique feature on A330 and A400M
aircraft.

Roy Trim, Chief Engineer at Cobham Air Refuelling & Auxiliary Mission
Equipment Division explains: “Prior to using Wind River’s VxWorks, the
Refuelling Control Unit ran on machine code. VxWorks provides greater options
with regards to architectural flexibility, considered important for the
continued development of our avionic solutions capability. A key reason for
selecting VxWorks was that it’s an industry-accepted safety-critical RTOS that
comes with proven DO-178B Level A certification credentials.”

Richard Tyson, Managing Director of Cobham Air Refuelling & Auxiliary
Mission Equipment Division, says: "Using a product that’s tailored to our needs
for connectivity and safety-critical standards gives us an unparalleled edge to
tailor our product to a global range of applications. As the inventors of
mid-flight refuelling, we’re able to utilise decades of experience to stay on
the cutting edge of hardware and software advancements.”

Alex Wilson, Senior Programme Manager for Aerospace and Defence at Wind
River, comments: “The RTOS is a critical building block for an increasing number
of safety-critical systems, and rather than develop this technology in-house,
aerospace device developers and manufacturers are increasingly looking to
readily available COTS solutions to outsource commodities like real-time
operating systems, middleware and board support. This approach enables
specialist device makers, like Cobham, to focus on the development of products
that are more advanced, versatile and easier to certify”.

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Alex Shapiro /
Jasmine Richards
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About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimisation (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run device software faster, better, at lower cost and more reliably. Our platforms are preintegrated, fully standardised, enterprise-wide development solutions. They reduce effort, cost and risk and optimise quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process, from concept to deployed product.

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Global Corporate Communications