Wind River unveils latest Linux platform

BANGALORE

AUGUST 8, 2006

Wind River
Systems 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.

Venkatesh Kumaran,
country manager India at Wind River, said, "This release addresses two key
growth segments for Linux: consumer devices and network equipment. 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," he added.

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.