Aonix Advances to Wind River Platform Partner Status.

Aonix Listed With Top Wind River Software Partners

SAN DIEGO -- Aonix(R) today announced a decision to strengthen its long-time partnership with Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND), the global leader in Device Software Optimization (DSO). Aonix is the provider of the PERC(R) real-time virtual machines and ObjectAda(R) real-time and safety-critical solutions for embedded targets. After years of serving as a Community Partner, Aonix will become a Wind River Platform Partner, the highest level of corporate partnership that Wind River extends to software companies. The Platform Partner level of participation is by invitation only, and requires Platform Partners' technologies to be aligned with Wind River products from roadmap through development, QA, and test to ensure seamless integration.

Platform Partnership strategically positions Aonix with select upper-tier partners focused on driving joint business through one or more of Wind River's vertical market segments. Aonix addresses Wind River's Aerospace and Defence segment and offers years of servicing many customers with Ada real-time and DO-178B certified development solutions. Now, as a Platform Partner, Aonix is closely aligned with Wind River strategic direction for Java developers, providing industry-leading real-time virtual machines and tools tightly coupled with the Wind River development and execution environment.

"It is an honor to be selected by Wind River as a Platform Partner," stated Gary Cato, Aonix manager of strategic alliances. "Plans are already underway for a joint safety-critical Java solution. Current Ada customers are enquiring about the potential of PERC, and C/C++ developers are eager for a better solution for their mission- and safety-critical applications as well. We look forward to expanding this interest to the larger Wind River audience."

"Safety critical expertise and ability to address customers with large or complex projects sets Aonix apart from other vendors," said Chip Downing, aerospace & defense industry marketing manager at Wind River. "Aonix' development tools, especially the newer PERC real-time and safety-critical products, offer significant help to VxWorks platform users wanting to move up to a more modern, cost-effective development solution for ever-increasing levels of complexity."

PERC Ultra is the ideal solution for embedded applications of high complexity, thanks to PERC Ultra's predictable performance and its extensive support of off-the-shelf J2SE libraries and components. Its sister product, PERC Pico, meets the needs of resource-constrained hard real-time applications, featuring performance and footprint characteristics comparable to C. PERC Pico is smaller and faster than any other real-time virtual machine, yet it preserves key virtues of Java(TM) such as portability, reliability, and scalability.

PERC Ultra and PERC Pico are interoperable within a single application. For the first time, it is now possible for Java developers to create complete complex applications from infrastructure to the device level, without resorting to the use of other languages with less portability and robust memory use for specialized components.

Shipping and Availability

PERC Ultra for VxWorks 6.x is shipping now for Windows and Solaris hosts and PowerPC targets with AOT and JIT compilation. PERC development tools are available at no charge in combination with a maintenance contract. Target execution and deployment license pricing is based on projected volume. ObjectAda Real-Time for VxWorks is shipping now.

About ObjectAda(R)

ObjectAda provides an extremely effective solution for developing portable, highly reliable, and efficient applications. Based on Ada 95, the first and only internationally standardized object-oriented programming language (ANSI/ISO), ObjectAda is a truly multi-lingual environment. ObjectAda allows you to easily integrate Ada components with components written in Java, C, C++, FORTRAN, and other languages for multi-lingual development. And ObjectAda works directly with commercial off-the-shelf libraries, components, and APIs.

For any platform, ObjectAda features a fast, open library model that is fully compatible with other languages, high-speed intelligent compilation, hyperlinked semantic browsers, syntax-directed editors, integration with configuration managers, and instant access to standard APIs. On all platforms, application generation is optimized for reliable, seamless execution of thread-aware applications within a safe and secure operational environment.

About PERC(R)

First introduced nine years ago, PERC is the most widely used real-time Virtual Machine available for Java developers, with fielded installations in telecommunications, telematics, avionics, deep space exploration, and office automation applications. PERC supports most major real-time operating systems and a variety of target processors including PowerPC, XScale, ARM, and Intel x86 architectures.

PERC Ultra is a virtual machine and toolset expressly created for demanding embedded and real-time systems requiring J2SE(TM) support. PERC Ultra delivers the ease and efficiency of Java(TM) Standard Edition support without sacrificing integrity, performance, or real-time behavior. It offers AOT and JIT compilation, remote debug support, deterministic garbage collection, standard graphics and extended commercial RTOS support. The PERC product line also features PERC Pico, a virtual machine designed for hard real-time applications requiring fast execution, small footprint, and access to low-level devices.

PERC Ultra is available for Wind River VxWorks 6.x. PERC Ultra is the industry-leading real-time virtual machine, featuring the predictable performance critically needed for complex embedded applications. PERC Ultra offers the predictable performance and high levels of reliability fundamental to the military and aerospace markets where the VxWorks device software platform dominates. The high productivity required for these markets is supported by broad off-the-shelf Java(TM) component access made possible with PERC Ultra.

About Aonix(R)

Aonix offers mission- and safety-critical solutions primarily to the military and aerospace, telecommunications and transportation industries. Aonix delivers the leading high-reliability, real-time embedded virtual machine solution for running Java(TM) programs deployed today and has the largest number of certified Ada applications at the highest level of criticality. Headquartered in San Diego, CA and Paris, France, Aonix operates sales offices throughout North America and Europe in addition to offering a network of international distributors. For more information, visit www.aonix.com.

Aonix and PERC and ObjectAda are registered trademarks and trademarks of Aonix. Java(TM) and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other tradenames and trademarks are the property of their respective owners. (C) 2006, Aonix, all rights reserved.