Corporate Profile for Wind River Systems, dated Sept. 25, 1998.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Sept. 25, 1998
Company Name: Wind River Systems
Address: 1010 Atlantic Ave.
Alameda, Calif. 94501
Main Telephone
Number: 800/545-WIND or 510/748-4100
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) http://www.wrs.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Ron Abelmann
Chief Financial
Officer: Dick Kraber
Investor Relations
Contact: DeAnna Mekwunye
Business number: 510/749-2577
Public Relations
Contact: Gretchen Maddox
Business number: 510/749-2396
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: Nasdaq:WIND
Industry: Software
Market Makers: Telecomm/Datacomm; Consumer; Digital Imaging;
Automotive; Office Automation
-0- Company description: Wind River Systems, Inc., an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 registered company, is the leading provider of integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. development tools for real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. embedded applications An application that permanently resides in an industrial or consumer device. Providing some type of control function and/or user interface, the software is typically stored in a non-volatile memory such as ROM or flash memory. in the Internet, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , datacommunications, office automation, networking, computer peripherals, medical, automotive, industrial, aerospace, and multimedia markets. Through the industry's most comprehensive product line and customer support, Wind River enables customers to develop and reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. application software across a variety of products and platforms, shortening development cycles and improving time-to-market. Incorporated in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. , Calif. with operations in the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Israel, Korea, and Japan and representation worldwide. Wind River reported revenues of 92 million dollars in fiscal year 1998, a 44% increase from fiscal year 1997. |
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