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To: Ramsey Su who wrote (7494)	3/16/2000 11:10:00 AM
From: Peter Church	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

WRS's Highlander announcement: Wind River Invests In Highlander Engineering, Developer of >Industry-Leading VisiBroker CORBA ORB, Embedded CORBA Runtime Software ALAMEDA, Calif., March 15, 2000 - Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND), a leading provider of software and services for smart devices in the Internet age, today announced it has made a strategic investment in Highlander Engineering, Inc.ÿ The transaction is part of Wind River?s ongoing efforts to deliver leading-edge communications-related technology to embedded developers. Prior steps included the acquisitions of Xact and Routerware and the formation of the Wind River Networks business unit. Highlander will remain privately held and under the direction of its current president, Ken Black. A member of Wind River management will join the Highlander board of directors. The amount of the investment was not disclosed.ÿ Wind River?s other equity investments include Liberate Technologies (Nasdaq:LBRT) and privately-held FlashPoint Technology, Inc., among others. ?Wind River is committed to helping our customers create innovative products based on leading-edge technologiesÿ without stretching out their development cycles,? noted Curt Schacker, vice president of >corporate development for Wind River. ?There are key companies, like Highlander, that offer complementary technologies and services that allow us to deliver a design platform optimized for specific market requirements. In this case, together we can bring to our mutual customers a more complete solution for infrastructure applications, including the Internet. By investing strategically we are expanding the breadth and depth of our value delivery network.? ?There is a convergence between the common object request broker architecture (CORBA) and more traditional embedded technologies across a number of disciplines, notably telecommunications,? said Dave Fraser, vice president and general manager, Wind River Networks business unit.ÿ ?This convergence is helping to enable a powerful communications infrastructure that will support the wide range of emerging connected, smart devices. Our involvement with Highlander will result in more tightly-integrated products which enable our telecommunications customers to meet their demanding time-to-market requirements.? Highlander works with Inprise Corporation (also known as Inprise/Borland) to produce the VisiBroker embedded object request broker (ORB), which is compatible with both Wind River?s pSOSú and VxWorks© real time operating systems (RTOS).ÿ VisiBroker is based on the common object request broker architecture (CORBA) and is the most widely-deployed CORBA implementation with more than 30 million licenses worldwide. VisiBroker is used extensively in the telecommunication field, in flexible network management and other infrastructure applications. CORBA allows devices to communicate through an open standard and is one of the major distributed object infrastructures. Highlander is based in Lakeland, Florida and has a global customer base including industry leaders in the United States, Canada, East Asia and Europe. ?Bringing our two companies together through this investment makes sense for everyone in our market and we are delighted to be working this closely with the embedded software leader,? said Ken Black, president of >Highlander.ÿ ?The same major benefits that CORBA provides in the enterprise environment are applicable to other products using embedded technology.ÿ CORBA lets software developers build complex, distributed object-based applications with near universal interoperability among diverse programming languages and hardware architectures. Wind River?s support allows us to continue to strengthen this powerful technology.?

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (7494)	3/16/2000 11:11:00 AM
From: Starlight	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

The last minute run-up in WIND yesterday MAY have been caused by a brochure sent out by Michael Murphy touting his Technology Investing newsletter. In this brochure he talks about "20 Surprises in Technology For The Year 2000", and he mentions WIND in relation to its involvement in smart cards.