Peter, I believe that WIND's very successful equity investments in Liberate (LBRT) and Emultek (EIM), have the potential to offset the share dilution we are experiencing caused by recent acquistions.
Whenever those positions are sold, WIND will have the means to easily fund a share buy-back program. And, since I think we can assume that WIND is investing with legally obtained - 'inside information' ... one would hope that the odds for success should be in our favor :)
I believe that they also have equity positions in the following privately-held companies: Flashpoint Technology; 3SoftGmbh; and Highlander Engineering.
Just think of the fun we will have anticipating those IPOs :)
Wind River Acquires New Automotive RT Kernel Technology
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Wind River Systems Makes a Strategic Financial Investment in Emultek
(EMI - 633,752 shares)
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Wind River Systems Participate in $27.5 Million Round of Funding for FlashPoint Technology, Inc.
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Wind River Invests In Highlander Engineering, Developer of Industry-Leading VisiBroker CORBA ORB, Embedded CORBA Runtime Software
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RE: WIND's investment in Liberate
(LBRT - 416,666)
After I received the following from WIND's IR person - deanna@wrs.com - LBRT split 2 for 1:
> Wind River Systems is an investor in Liberate. We initially invested $2M
> to purchase 1.25 million Series E preferred shares in Liberate. Immediately
> preceeding the IPO these were subject to a 6:1 reverse split and converted
> into common stock - traded under the ticker LBRT. Therefore our 1.25
> million preferred shares were converted into 208,333 shares of LBRT common
> stock.
While thinking about your question this weekend, I checked out WIND's past Partner News Releases. I know I do not begin to understand all of what I read, but ... again, my impression is that the right things are moving in the right direction :)
For easy reading, I have organized them in chronological order. I think you will find it most interesting to see how many of WINS's olde partners have been subsequently been acquired by WIND.
(note: For your ever helpful archive, I will be separately posting the 38 Partner News Releases for 1997-1998)
--alan
Here are 1999's - 53 "Partner News Releases":
Jan-07-99
Troy XCD, Inc. Announces VxWorks-Compatible Software- only OEM Print Server
Feb-16-99
Sybase and Wind River Systems Enable Enterprise Data Management for Embedded Systems
Feb-23-99
Sigma Game Embeds Raimaïs Database Technology in New Generation of Casino Gaming Machines
Mar-01-99
IGST CyberPro5050 is the First Multimedia Processor Supported by Wind River Systemsï UGL Device Driver Framework
Mar-01-99
RouterWare Adds Portable Networking Solutions Designed for Wind Riverïs VxWorks
Mar-08-99
Embedded Performance, Inc. Announces Support for Wind River Tornado Development Environment
Mar-31-99
Birdstep Technology AS to Port icebreaker to Wind River?s VxWorks
May-10-99
Pervasive Software Announces Mobile and Embeddeed Database Initiative, Ships DBMS Beta
May-11-99
Sun Microsystems Targets Real-Time Communications Applications with World-Class RTOS Support on compactPCI
May-14-99
Raimaïs Update to Database Engine for Wind River Systemïs Tornado and VxWorks Improves Memory and File Management, Performance
Jun-14-99
Lumos Technologies Provides Integrated TL1 Agent Solution For VxWorks ; Integrated Solution Provided Through Wind River Systems' WindLink Partner Program
Jun-21-99
NETsilicon Expands NET+Works RTOS Portfolio With Support for Wind River's VxWorks
Jul-28-99
Centuraïs RDM/Vx Chosen As Embedded Database For New Internet-Enabled Set-Top Boxes
Aug-03-99
Pervasive Software Partners With Wind River To Deliver Information Management For Internet Appliances
Aug-03-99
SDL Communications Complements its WAN Interface Offerings with VxWorks Driver Support
Aug-03-99
EST Corp. and Wind River Systems Strengthen Relationship with Wind River Direct Single-Source Sales Program
Aug-03-99
Criterion and Wind River Systems Offer Single-Source Sales Program for Embedded Developers
Aug-03-99
Criterion and Wind River Systems Expand Partnership
Aug-09-99
Applied Microsystems Introduces LiveCODE?, Part of the CodeOPTIX Family, for Wind River Systems? VxWorks Operating Systems
Aug-10-99
Wind River Systems and Rapid Logic Co-host Fall Club Web Seminar
Aug-23-99
Motorola Computer Group Announces Extensive Real-Time Operating System Support for Its High-availability Telecommunications Platform
Aug-24-99
Rapid Logic Announces New Product Optimized for Wind River Systems
Aug-25-99
The New Look of VMOD-P5
Aug-31-99
DriveWay Products Now Available from Wind River Systems
Sept-08-99
Polyhedra Real-time Database Provides Cost Effective Fault Tolerant Configuration on Wind River Systems? VxWorks Real-Time Operating System
Sept-09-99
H.A. Technical Solutions, LLC announces its HA for VxWorks, HA for Solaris 2.x and HA for Solaris 7 High Availability Software for Sun Microelectronics' line of 64 bit high performance cPCI CPU boards.
Sept-14-99
Sun Amplifies Community Source Licensing Program with Addition Ofÿ 32-Bit SPARC ? Processor Design
Sept-20-99
Agranat Systemsï EmWeb is now load-and-go for Wind River Systems, Inc. customers
Sept-20-99
New Software Seminar Series from Ziatech with Sponsorship by Intel© Focuses on Real-Time Operating Systems for Applied Computing Solutions
Sept-27-99
AP Labs Announces Windows-NT Support for VMEwindow
Sept-27-99
GESPAC Rolls out the Marketïs first 750 PowerPC Compact PCI Single Board Computer
Sept-27-99
PLX Technology Announces Support for Wind Riverïs VxWorks Operating System
Sept-27-99
Hitex in-circuit emulators support Wind River?s Tornado/VxWorks
Sept-27-99
Mentor Graphics and Wind River Systems Team Up To Provide Comprehensive XRAY Debugging Solution for the Tornado Development Environment
Sept-27-99
PEP Modular Computers Offers High performance CompactPCI CPU with 500 MHz Celeron processor
Sept-27-99
RackNET: Multiprocessing support forÿ CompactPCI CPUs with Wind River?s VxWorks
Sept-27-99
Artesyn Communication Products Announces a cost-reduced version of its Octal-E1/T1 Board For Teledatacom Applications
Sept-27-99
Artesyn Communicationÿ Products Announces New Power-PC based PMC Module
Sept-27-99
New T1/E1 PMC Modules from Artesyn Communication Products Deliver High-performance Protocol Connectivity
Sept-27-99
Portable Protocol Engine 1.5 Slashes man-years off Protocol Interface Development with New E1/T1 Framer Support
Sept-27-99
HighComm Adds VxSim Support to VisiBroker for Tornado CORBA-compliant Middleware Package
Sept-27-99
Leading DSL Vendors endorseÿ Nortel Networks? Secure DSL Solution to accelerate Massÿ Marketÿ DSL Adoption
Sept-28-99
Ziatech CompactPCI© Multiprocessing Technology Provides Integrated Development Platform for Wind River System?s Tornado platform, VxWorks RTOS
Sept-28-99
Sybase Extends its e-Anywhere Strategy to Embedded Systems
Oct-04-99
NETsilicon Announces NET+Works Solution for Wind River?s VxWorks Operating System and Tornado Platform
Nov-03-99
RTview Ships SurroundView for VxWorks
Nov-08-99
America Online, Hewlett Packard and Wind River Systems Participate in $27.5 Million Round of Funding for FlashPoint Technology, Inc.
Dec-00-99
EPSON Expands Operating System Support for Its Market-Leading LCD Controllers
Dec-07-99
Rapid Logic?s MIBway for Wind Web Server Provides Support for Wind River?s Tornado Platform, VxWorks RTOS
Dec-14-99
Equator Consortium Announces `SofTVï Initiative
Dec-14-99
Liberate Technologies Launches PopTV Program
Dec-15-99
Spider Software Networking Protocol Supplier Selected for Wind River Direct |
