Virtutech Joins Wind River's Partner Program.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Partnership to Deliver Virtual Models of Full Development Boards, Enabling Unmatched Flexibility in the Development, Design and Testing of Device Computing Platforms

Virtutech, Inc., the world's leading provider of virtualization technology for full-system simulation, today announced a partnership with Wind River Systems (NASDAQ:WIND), the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Virtutech's advanced full system virtualization technology, Simics 2.0, enables software engineers to virtualize complex digital systems without the need for physical hardware.

Using Simics 2.0, customers will be able to run Wind River products unmodified on fully-simulated models of hardware, providing unmatched flexibility for the development, design and testing process. With these virtual models enabled by Simics, Wind River's customers will be able to develop system software faster, at a lower cost, and more reliably across both Linux and VxWorks(R), the industry leading operating system for device software. Simics supports full systems based on the ARM, MIPS and Power PC architectures, among others.

"We're pleased that Wind River has selected Simics as a complimentary solution to expand their presence with real-time device development," said Dale Rossi, vice president of channels and business development, Virtutech. "The inclusion of Simics-based virtual modeling technology to the Wind River product family has the potential of providing unmatched flexibility and cost savings to developers seeking a significant decrease in their time-to-market, as well as capital expenditures."

Developers can now take advantage of benefits only available with virtualization, including:

--fully-controllable execution

--complete and non-intrusive inspection of all levels of the system

--quick save and restore of complete simulated state (checkpointing)

--unmatched scalability--every developer can have complete access to their own virtual development board(s), ensuring full development team compliance and accuracy

Wind River is pleased to welcome Virtutech in the Wind River Partner community. In the spirit of driving Device Software Optimization (DSO) Wind River has designed a partner program that broadens the scope of tools and technologies that customers can benefit from to:

--minimize the inefficiencies and complexities of the device software development process

--maximize the reliability, security, and interoperability of the device software production environment

--accelerate the standardization of device development, release, and enhancement across multiple environments

"Combined with Wind River's enterprise-wide device software solutions, Virtutech's full system virtualization adds a powerful new approach to the software development process," said Nik Wekwerth, director of business development, Wind River.

About Simics

Virtutech's Simics is the fastest full system virtualization development platform available, providing a controlled, deterministic, and fully-simulated environment for the development, debugging, and testing of complex digital systems. The Simics development environment encompasses networks of heterogeneous single and multiprocessor systems (routers, PCs, switches, servers, etc.), as well as clusters and networks of systems for all target architectures. These virtual systems contain both standard and custom hardware models, including peripherals and boards -unchanged from their real hardware origins--as well as operating systems, BIOS, firmware and drivers.

About Virtutech

Virtutech is the world's leading provider of full-system virtualization technology. Virtutech is the only company using advanced virtualization technology to model test laboratories of hundreds of heterogeneous systems, deployable across all engineering tasks. Based on more than a decade of R&D and close collaboration with leading universities and systems companies, Virtutech's core product, Virtutech Simics 2.0, provides the most advanced infrastructure for virtualizing complex digital systems, serving the needs of the largest systems companies in the world. Virtutech is headquartered at 1740 Technology Drive, Suite 460, San Jose, CA 95110. For more information, visit www.virtutech.com or email [e-mail].

About Wind River

Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). Wind River enables companies to develop and run software faster, better, less expensively and more reliably. Wind River Platforms tightly integrate a rich set of market-leading operating systems, development tools and middleware with services to provide a complete foundation that meets the specific requirements of a vertical market. Wind River's products and professional services are used in multiple markets including aerospace and defense, automotive, digital consumer, industrial, and network infrastructure. Companies from around the world turn to Wind River to create the most reliable products and to accelerate their time to market.

Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, Calif., with operations worldwide. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or call Wind River at 1-800-872-4977.

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