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Nov 7, 2005 05:59 ET

Wind River Announces Commercial Grade Workbench 2.4 Development Suite With New Unit Tester and Diagnostic Products, Updated Eclipse 3.1 Technology

Expanded Suite Furthers Device Software Development Optimization Across the Entire Lifecycle by Delivering Unit and Integration Testing and Dynamic Debugging and Root Cause Analysis Capabilities

ALAMEDA, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND) , the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO), today announced Wind River(R) Workbench 2.4, featuring new product additions and upgrades to the company's industry-leading, commercial grade device software development suite. Wind River Workbench is the industry's first Eclipse-based, open-source device software development suite that offers deep capabilities for developers across the entire development process in a single integrated suite. In addition to updated Eclipse 3.1 technology and hardware support, Wind River Workbench 2.4 development suite unveils new unit testing and diagnostic products. By freeing developers from manual testing and time- consuming failure diagnosis, Workbench 2.4 development suite enables developers to elevate their focus to the higher-value features essential for competitive differentiation in today's rapidly growing device market.

"As the extended enterprise continues to branch out and diversify, testing, identifying and resolving defects have become more grueling than ever. At the same time, the pressure to deliver new features and stay ahead of the market is stronger than ever," said John Fanelli, vice president of product marketing, Wind River. "With Wind River Workbench 2.4, we've maintained ease of development via one single integrated suite, while providing access to the latest Eclipse 3.1 technology and reducing time spent on manual processes. Wind River's development suite continues to be the only way for device developers to cut inefficiencies effectively throughout the development lifecycle."

Wind River Delivers Commercial Grade Testing and Diagnostics

Wind River Workbench is a scalable development suite that increases individual productivity, enables collaboration among hardware and software developers within a project team, and meets diverse development needs across an enterprise. With the release of Wind River Workbench 2.4, the suite introduces two new products:

-- Workbench Unit Tester: Integrated tools that allow developers to
create and perform unit testing, code integration testing and test
coverage analysis in an easy and standardized way. Wind River(R)
Workbench Unit Tester tools increases product quality, decreases time-
to-market and reduces support costs through better, faster and
increasingly automated testing during the development lifecycle.
-- Workbench Diagnostics: The industry's first Eclipse-based diagnostic
product incorporating both nonstop dynamic debugging and forensic-style
device-level inspection capabilities. Wind River(R) Workbench
Diagnostics tools allow developers to safely and securely apply
diagnostics to a live system, which is then enabled to provide a system
status report. Workbench Diagnostics increases developer productivity
by compressing debug cycles and eliminating unnecessary
instrumentation-compile cycles. In addition, in the event of a system
failure, Wind River Diagnostics enables developers to effectively
execute forensic analysis on a core file and intelligently rewind key
system attributes step-by-step prior to the failure.

Eases Testing and Diagnostics Throughout the Entire Development and Device Lifecycle

-- Easier device software unit testing: Until today, device software
required time-intensive manual testing prior to deployment. Companies
expend significant time and resources in unit testing and integration
testing of their device software. The new Workbench Unit Tester
automates this testing process.
-- Sensorpoints for dynamic debugging and rapid root cause analysis during
development and testing: After development and testing of each
individual unit, device software must then be integrated as a whole,
creating additional opportunity for bugs. Workbench Diagnostics also
enables rapid isolation of problems and root cause identification
during the integration testing process with dynamic code sensors.
-- Field-based diagnostics capabilities: After units are individually
tested and integrated, software can then be deployed to the device.
During the post-development stage of the device lifecycle, additional
difficulties in diagnosis arise. As the extended enterprise grows, so
does the need for remote device diagnostics. To ensure that errors can
still be identified and resolved, even across a diverse array of
configurations, Wind River Workbench Diagnostics resides directly on
the device, allowing it to be accessed once it is in the field.

Workbench 2.4 Product Suite Provides Expanded Hardware Support and Eclipse Technology

-- Workbench 2.4 product suite updated to Eclipse 3.1: The entire
Workbench development suite has been updated to include the latest
Eclipse-based technology, including the Eclipse 3.1 software developer
kit (SDK).
-- Wind River platform optimizations: The Workbench 2.4 development suite
is tightly integrated with Wind River's VxWorks 6.2 (see today's
related release) and Linux platforms, providing an unparalleled Device
Software Optimization development environment. Key platform
optimizations include:

- Development tool support of the VxWorks 6 platform real-time
processes and shared libraries on new processor architectures
- Support for newly added VxWorks platform scalability features
- New TIPC-based, distributed debugging capability with the VxWorks 6
platform
- Kernel mode debugging, ScopeTools and System Viewer support for Wind
River Linux platforms on MIPS and ARM
- Linux platform build support for Windows and Solaris hosts

-- Wind River Workbench OCD Edition enhancements: Significant investment
continues to be made in on-chip debugging support within Workbench.
Workbench OCD Edition is still OS-agnostic with the ability to debug
any Linux kernel.

- Workbench 2.4 development suite adds VxWorks 5.5 platform support to
the Wind River(R) Workbench OCD Edition solution
- New processor architecture support for ARM 9, ColdFire and XScale
- Wind River Probe is supported on Linux host environments
- Expanded Linux kernel mode and kernel module debugging capabilities
across a broader range of processors

-- New Hardware Support: Workbench 2.4 includes wide coverage of
architectures and processors on VxWorks-, Linux- and ThreadX-based
devices. Developers benefit from significant breadth of silicon-
supported end-to-end coverage of the Wind River platform (operating
system and tools) on the market's leading processors. Organizations can
standardize on Workbench in a heterogeneous architecture-based device
manufacturer. Furthermore, Wind River's comprehensive silicon portfolio
can be leveraged by developers during the entire lifecycle, from
hardware bring-up through OCD tools to application development. Major
hardware-related enhancements will include support for Coldfire
architecture, new ARM and MIPS cores and market-leading processors from
Freescale, Intel and other semiconductor vendors.

Availability

The Wind River Workbench 2.4 suite of products is available today in Early Access for select customers and will be generally available in late November 2005. Workbench Unit Tester and Workbench Diagnostics will be generally available for use with VxWorks in late November 2005. To learn more about Wind River Workbench, please visit: http://www.windriver.com/products/development_tools/ide/wind_river_workbench

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.

Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement

Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, the anticipated release and benefits of new products, services and reference designs by Wind River and resulting from collaboration with partners, are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, delays in the development or integration of technologies, rapid technological or business changes that adversely affect customer demand or partner strategies, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Wind River reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form 10-K for the year ended January 31, 2005. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Wind River disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

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