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Wind River Becomes a Strategic Developer <br> | |
Member of Eclipse; Proposes the Foundation's First <br> | |
Device Software Development Project</b></span></b></h1> | |
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<li>Joins broad ecosystem of premier industry players including IBM, Intel, | |
MontaVista and QNX for the device space</li> | |
<li>Drives next level of industry standardization; helps companies further | |
industry standardization</li> | |
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ALAMEDA, Calif. - March 8, 2005 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the global | |
leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO) and the Eclipse Foundation today announced that Wind River will propose | |
and lead an Eclipse Device Software Development Platform project, the first project specifically for device software | |
development. Wind River elevated its membership status with the Eclipse Foundation from being an add-in provider to | |
Strategic Developer and will further incorporate Eclipse-based technology into Wind River products. With the Device | |
Software Development Project, Wind River is bringing its expertise in device software development and run-time | |
solutions to the Eclipse community to foster industry standardization and innovation to help companies develop and | |
run device software better, faster, more reliably and at a lower cost. | |
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"The goal of Eclipse is to create a universal development platform to enable global enterprises to develop software | |
more efficiently," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director, Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "Wind River has deep experience | |
in device software and will provide the vision, technology and resources to enhance the Eclipse platform specifically | |
for embedded software development. The addition of the Device Software Development Platform project will help expand | |
Eclipse's presence in embedded computing, a key focus area for the foundation as outlined in the recently unveiled | |
Eclipse Roadmap." | |
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Eclipse has gained tremendous traction in the enterprise market and is focused on replicating this success into | |
several key areas, including embedded systems where vendors have started to adopt Eclipse technology for development | |
tools in the device space. The Device Software Development Platform project will build on this success by creating | |
an open source tools infrastructure that is supported by multiple vendors. In the future, developers will find that | |
the Device Software Development Platform enables them to easily create software that operates across a wide range of | |
operating systems, connection mechanisms and target architectures. The Device Software Development Platform will | |
initially focus on a framework and exemplary tools for target management that will enable developers to deploy, | |
debug, and analyze applications on a device as well as the configuration of operating system and middleware components. | |
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"By bringing the Device Software Development Project to the market, Wind River will help change the way device software | |
development is done," said John Bruggeman, chief marketing officer for Wind River. "Manufacturers will now be able to | |
standardize on choice using a widely accepted, fully integrated development platform that supports all Eclipse | |
technologies and is backed by an unprecedented ecosystem of industry-leading companies." | |
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<strong>Eclipse Strategic Developers have pledged support for the Device Software Development Platform:</strong><br /> | |
"Intel welcomes Wind River's participation in Eclipse and looks forward to their initiation of the new Device | |
Software Development Platform project," said Jon Khazam, vice president and general manager of Intel's Software | |
Products Division and Eclipse Foundation board member. "There is a strong interest in Eclipse-based development tools | |
for device-level software. Wind River's efforts will help accelerate the move to a common shared infrastructure | |
among tools vendors, reducing time to market and providing greater consistency and interoperability to developers." | |
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<p> "As a founding member of Eclipse, IBM welcomes Wind River's proposal to | |
help standardize device development via the Device Software Development | |
Platform project, bringing the benefits of Wind River's experience and | |
Eclipse's open environment to the device development community," said | |
Stephen Saunders, development director, IBM Rational. "Providing a standard | |
way to build embedded applications will help accelerate software development | |
and innovation in the rapidly-growing device space." <br> | |
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<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
<span class="subhead"> Wind River</span></font></b></td> | |
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<P> 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. <br /> | |
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Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, | |
with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at <a href="http://www.windriver.com" target="_blank">www.windriver.com</a> | |
or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.</p> | |
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<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
<span class="subhead">the Eclipse Foundation</span></font></b></td> | |
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<p>Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused | |
on providing an extensible development platform and application | |
frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools | |
and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including | |
support for modeling, language development environments for Java, | |
C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, | |
rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant | |
ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities | |
and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and | |
support the Eclipse Platform. </p> | |
<p> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation | |
that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the | |
Eclipse Foundation are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a>. | |
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Elyce Ventura<br> | |
Bite Communications<br> | |
415-365-0457<br> | |
windriver@bitepr.com <br> | |
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<div align="center">Chantal Yang<br> | |
Schwartz Communications<br> | |
781-684-0770<br> | |
eclipse@schwartzpr.com<br> | |
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<P>The Wind River logo is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc., and Wind | |
River is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. All other | |
names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks | |
of their respective companies. Java and all Java-based trademarks are | |
trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United | |
States and other countries.<br> | |
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