ALAMEDA, CA — March 16, 2009 — Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced the immediate availability of Wind River Linux 3.0, Wind River's most feature-rich Linux platform to date. Wind River Linux 3.0 is a pre-integrated, commercial-grade and fully supported Linux platform.

Based on Linux kernel 2.6.27 and GCC 4.3, Wind River Linux 3.0 provides a flexible and pervasive development environment. Wind River Linux 3.0 now comes with more than 500 software packages, 250 more than the previous product version, including packages for multimedia, graphics and HMI (human-machine interface) technologies, such as X.org, GTK+, GNOME or GStreamer. The new release also offers sophisticated multicore features such as virtualization based on KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) and multicore offload, allowing customers to utilize the potential of modern multicore hardware.

"Open source software platforms are rapidly becoming an industry standard among device manufacturers trying to drive innovation while controlling cost," said Nithya Ruff, senior director of product management and marketing for Wind River's Linux Product Division. "Wind River offers a highly advanced Linux platform backed by more than 25 years of experience in the embedded software market and leadership in open source consortia, including GENIVI, Open Handset Alliance and LiMo, enabling our customers to do more with less. More than 15,000 man hours of testing and 500,000 test cases specifically for Wind River Linux 3.0 ensures commercial-grade product quality."

Wind River Linux 3.0 provides a set of pre-configured system profiles for vertical industries including the aerospace and defense, consumer, industrial, networking and medical market segments. Prior to today's introduction of Wind River Linux 3.0, Wind River's Linux distributions were individually packaged to contain different features and hardware support for each specific vertical market. By condensing these stand-alone vertical distributions into a single consolidated platform, Wind River Linux 3.0 provides existing and new customers with reduced purchasing complexity and increased development flexibility at no additional cost.

"VDC Research expects that the company's strategic roles in leading open source consortia, and focus on product quality and world-class support will continue to elevate its position in the embedded Linux market," said Stephen Balacco, director of the Embedded Software and Tools Practice at VDC Research Group. "Last year VDC's market research showed Wind River continuing to strengthen their market position in the embedded Linux market and the results from this year’s research due out in May could show shifts within the competitive landscape and market leaders."

Wind River Linux 3.0 complies with the Carrier Grade Linux 4.0 specification from the Linux Foundation, a critical requirement for the telecommunications and high-end data networking markets. Furthermore, Wind River is the only embedded Linux vendor offering real-time capabilities ranging from soft-to-hard real-time performance.

Additional key features and benefits of Wind River Linux 3.0 include:

• Wind River Linux 3.0 supports a broad range of hardware platforms including the newest addition, Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC T2 architecture. Having a development-ready platform enables customers to reduce cost and time-to-market by focusing resources on product differentiation and revenue impacting activities, rather than reinventing non-competitive base technologies or dealing with potential open source license violations.


• Wind River Linux 3.0 is fully supported by Wind River's world-class global services and award-winning support organizations, providing extensive experience in delivering design, integration and optimization services.


• Wind River's world-class partner ecosystem ensures customers receive tightly integrated hardware and software solutions through strong partnerships with other industry leaders.


• Wind River Linux 3.0 will be supported by a release of Wind River's newly acquired Tilcon graphics suite, planned for later in 2009, to enable advanced graphical user interfaces for Linux-based devices.

More information about Wind River Linux 3.0 is available at:
www.windriver.com/products/linux/.

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, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

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NUREMBURG, GERMANY — Embedded World — March 4, 2009 — Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced that working in conjunction with Intel the two companies will collaborate to market optimized multicore solutions for the embedded market by aligning research and development, sales and marketing, professional services, and engineering resources. The two companies will initially target the Aerospace and Defense, Network Infrastructure, Industrial, Medical and Print Imaging market segments.

The collaboration will focus on advancing market plans for four primary technology optimizations that enable transitions to multicore:

• Optimization of Wind River VxWorks and Wind River Linux on Embedded Intel® architecture processors;


• Optimization of Wind River's hypervisor technology for Intel processors including full utilization of Intel Virtualization Technology (VT);


• Increased interoperability of development tools for analysis and tuning of multicore devices; and


• Integration of Intel compiler and performance primitives into Wind River multicore software platforms for Intel processors.

"The pace of multicore technology adoption has been slowed because hardware and software vendors have not been collaborating at this level," said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer at Wind River. "Now two industry leaders are coming together to address the challenges associated with enabling software for multicore processors. Our plan to provide co-developed, highly optimized solutions will provide a unique advantage to our joint customers."

The companies have already begun joint development as part of the agreement. Wind River is expanding VxWorks symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support for Intel® Core™2 and Intel® Xeon® processors, and support of Wind River's Workbench and On-Chip Debugging development suite for Intel® Core™2 and Intel® Atom™ processors. Further, the companies have collaborated to deliver customer-specific requests for asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP) support on Intel® Core™2 processors. Wind River also demonstrated its hypervisor technology on the Intel® Atom™ processor Z530 platform this week at Embedded World in Nuremburg, Germany.

"Intel has a long history of delivering powerful processor architectures to meet the performance and functionality demands of the embedded market," said Jonathan Walsh, general manager and group director of software engineering of the Embedded and Communications Group at Intel. "To address the growing software complexity and harness the multi-processing capabilities inherent in Intel architecture, this development between Intel and Wind River will help accelerate the deployment of multicore and low power Intel architecture."

Today's announcement builds on an existing relationship between the two companies to provide alignment across the embedded market segment. Last year the two companies announced agreements to deliver Linux-based platforms for the In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) and Mobile Internet Device (MID) markets and optimized for the Intel® Atom™ processor. Wind River and Intel are among the founding members of the GENIVI Alliance, a non-profit organization committed to driving the development and broad adoption of an open source IVI reference platform, which was announced on March 2, 2009. Through these engagements, Wind River and Intel created a model for collaborating on vertical market solutions, which is now being extended to a horizontal offering around multicore.

More information about Wind River's multicore solutions can be found at www.windriver.com/multicore-software.

About Wind River
Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) 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, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Intel, Intel Architecture, Intel Core, Intel Core2 Duo and Intel Atom are trademarks of Intel in the US and other countries.

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San Ramon, Calif., Mar. 2, 2009 — Leading automobile manufacturers and suppliers announced
today the formation of the GENIVI Alliance, a non-profit organization committed to driving the
development and broad adoption of an open source In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) reference
platform. The new alliance will unite industry-leading automotive, consumer electronics,
communications and application development companies investing in the IVI market and driving
innovation. The effort will result in both reducing time-to-market and total cost of ownership.

GENIVI Alliance founding members BMW Group, Delphi, General Motors Corp., Intel,
Magneti Marelli, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Visteon Corp., and Wind River are collaborating to
create a shared GENIVI platform - a common software architecture that is scalable across
product lines and generations. The GENIVI platform will accelerate the pace at which
automakers can deliver new solutions, bringing them closer to the lifecycle of consumer devices,
and accelerating new business models, such as connected services.

"GENIVI will challenge the traditional approach of proprietary solutions and spawn a
level of creativity not yet seen in this segment," said Graham Smethurst, GENIVI spokesperson
and BMW Group General Manager, Infotainment and Communication Systems. "Collaborating
on a common reference platform in non-differentiating areas of the architecture will allow
GENIVI members to focus on the development and integration of innovative customer
functionality."

Read the full GENIVI press release »

Read more about Wind River's role in GENIVI »

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San Jose and Alameda, Calif., March 2, 2009–Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) and Wind River (NASDAQ: WIND) today announced the availability of Linux support for Altera's Nios® II embedded processor. Embedded developers deploying products based on the Nios II processor can use this Linux solution across Altera's entire portfolio of FPGAs and HardCopy® ASICs.

Wind River's Linux solution for the Nios II processor is based on Linux 2.6 kernel technology, the GNU 4 tool chain and the Eclipse-based Wind River Workbench Development Suite. This solution adheres to well-known industry standards on Linux and tools and is customized to support the Nios II instruction set, the processor architecture and the custom instructions feature that can be implemented in the FPGA fabric to increase system performance.

"Together, Altera and Wind River have brought Linux support to the Nios II embedded processor on FPGAs," said Mike Langlois, general manager of networking solutions at Wind River. "Our customers can leverage a flexible hardware and software solution to create and bring to market faster, highly differentiated systems. The fact that the Nios II processor can run on all of Altera's FPGAs and HardCopy ASICs to enable a broad spectrum of solutions is well-matched to the needs of our customers who are looking to differentiate on price and performance."

Providing software developers a fast start on an FPGA-based platform, the Altera® and Wind River development framework offers an integrated, network-enabled processor-system reference design that boots Linux on power-up. Implemented on a Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit, the underlying hardware platform is a fully timing-constrained and performance-optimized processor subsystem design with a Nios II/f core and a number of common system peripherals such as Ethernet, timer and UART. A matching board support package (BSP) and a pre-built Linux kernel for this hardware platform give application developers a familiar and stable environment to jumpstart their application development effort. The same processor system reference design can target any FPGA or HardCopy ASIC in Altera's product portfolio.

"As more customers adopt FPGA platforms to create product differentiation in ever bigger and more sophisticated systems, their software development needs increase and evolve," said Danny Biran, senior vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera. "Our relationship with Wind River provides us with a partner who can support the broad and diverse needs of our global customers, and whose breath and depth of software expertise complements our hardware expertise."

Recognized by market-research firm Gartner as the FPGA industry's most widely used embedded processor in terms of design starts, the Nios II embedded processor is deployed in systems because of its flexibility, ease of integration and low cost. The Nios II embedded processor is a configurable, high-performance solution that delivers up to 340 DMIPS of performance in FPGAs and can be implemented in a few cents worth of logic elements. Using Altera's Quartus® II software tool suite, including the SOPC Builder tool, embedded developers can create systems with an exact-fit processor and just the right set of peripherals, and target them to Altera's devices.

Availability
The Linux distribution, a Nios II/f-based processor-system reference design, and a BSP for the Altera Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit are available from Wind River. Customers interested in purchasing the Linux solution for use on Altera's Nios II embedded processor should contact Wind River at www.windriver.com. To learn more about Altera's Nios II embedded processor, visit www.altera.com/nios2.

About Altera
Altera programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their markets. Find out more at www.altera.com.

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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, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com.

Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera logo, specific device designations and all other words that are identified as trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. All other product or service names are the property of their respective holders.

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