Wind River Systems Licenses Epilogue's Envoy SNMP for Real-Time, Embedded Applications.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 1996--Epilogue Technology Corp. and Wind River Systems Inc., today announced a licensing agreement that will allow Wind River to offer Epilogue's Envoy SNMP and Emissary SNMP MIB compiler as optional products for its Tornado cross-development environment for embedded applications.

The terms of the agreement give Wind River resale rights to Epilogue products, and will allow Tornado users to develop their own Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) solutions for embedded applications.

"SNMP remains a largely untapped resource for embedded systems programmers," observed David Preston, President and COO of Epilogue Technology Corp.

"With this licensing agreement, Wind River will be able to offer network management support to its Tornado customers. Epilogue customers have long known that any device connected to a computer network can benefit from SNMP support. And by incorporating our Envoy SNMP and Emissary MIB compiler technologies as component products for the Tornado development environment, we can again demonstrate to the market how versatile the architecture of our source code products really is."

"Embedded applications are requiring increasingly more networking functionality," said Stephen Li, Vice President of Telecommunications and Multimedia for Wind River.

"By licensing SNMP from Epilogue Technology, we can assure our customers that they have a standards-compliant, readily portable network management source code solution that can be adapted to meet any SNMP requirement.

"The distributed data processing architecture that Epilogue has built into its Envoy SNMP is ideal for embedded system applications. And because Epilogue will keep SNMP support current with changes in the evolving standards, we can continue to offer our customers the tools needed to bring better products to market faster."

Bringing SNMP to Embedded Systems Development

Wind River's Tornado is the first turnkey cross-development solution for embedded systems available for both UNIX and Windows hosts.

Completely open and extensible, Tornado consists of three integrated components: the Tornado tool suite, a set of powerful tools and utilities on both the host and the target; VxWorks., the industry's most powerful and scalable real-time operating system, which executes on the embedded target processor; and a full range of communications options such as Ethernet, serial line, ICE or ROM emulator for the target connection to the host.

A proven leader in the embedded networking world, Wind River was the first to incorporate the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) into its operating system for embedded and real-time applications.

Epilogue's Envoy and Emissary SNMP technology will be offered as optional products for the Tornado development environment allowing Wind River customers to quickly develop their own real-time SNMP applications. Tornado offers networking support for embedded, real-time applications by adding TCP/IP sockets, NFS client and server, Zbuf (or No Copy TCP/IP), CSLIP, RPC, FTP, rlogin, TELNET, BOOTP, and now SNMP to the VxWorks RTOS. By incorporating Envoy and Emissary, VxWorks is fully compliant with SNMP, and extends support for MIB-II.

Emissary is Epilogue's SNMP MIB compiler, which generates a C language source code file that can be used by Envoy to interface to Management Information Base (MIB) variables. The compiler creates an input file that defines the MIB and its conventions so the SNMP agent can utilize the MIB variables.

Developed for hardware, software, and chip manufacturers, Epilogue's Envoy is a compact, fast, portable SNMP solution that allows OEMs to readily incorporate Simple Network Management Protocol support into their own products.

About the Companies

Wind River Systems Inc., develops, markets, and supports software for developing real-time embedded applications. Its extensive product line enables customers to enjoy rapid time-to-market and standardize their designs across products. Incorporated in 1983, Wind River has operations in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, and Japan with representation worldwide.

The company is headquartered at 1010 Atlantic Avenue, Alameda, CA 94501; telephone [phone] or 800/545-WIND; FAX: [phone].

Epilogue Technology Corp. specializes in developing and marketing standards-based network management and protocol software products and support services to computer OEMs and computer systems manufacturers. Epilogue has licensed its products to more than 250 companies to date, including 3Com, Chipcom Corp., IBM, Network General Corp., Northern Telecom, and Optical Data Systems, among others. Epilogue customers have shipped more than 2 million network devices containing Epilogue Technology products worldwide.

Epilogue Technology Corp. is located at 11116 Desert Classic Lane, N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87111-7512; telephone: [phone]; FAX: [phone].

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