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To: the hube who wrote (20748)	3/19/2000 9:58:00 PM
From: bythepark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

John, On another thread elsewhere, a person expressed concern about WIND's share dilution factor caused by this series of acquisitions. I believe that WIND's very successful equity investments in Liberate (LBRT) and Emultek (EIM), have the potential to offset that share dilution issue. What's your take on this ? It seems to me that 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 windriver.com Wind River Systems Makes a Strategic Financial Investment in Emultek (EMI - 633,752 shares) windriver.com Wind River Systems Participate in $27.5 Million Round of Funding for FlashPoint Technology, Inc. windriver.com Wind River Invests In Highlander Engineering, Developer of Industry-Leading VisiBroker CORBA ORB, Embedded CORBA Runtime Software biz.yahoo.com 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 this subject, 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 ... and I expect there will be more than one G&K thread member who will add context & clarity & meaning to this list of 53 :) For easy reading, I have organized them in chronological order. I found it most interesting to see how many of WIND's olde partners have been subsequently been acquired by WIND. (note: In deference to the subject of thread bandwidth, at a later date I will separately post 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