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To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (31032)	9/3/2000 2:53:59 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

one thing I have not been able to discover is the extent to which WIND solutions are used by Open TV, or the extent to which WIND competes with OPTV. The same goes for related companies like Liberate. Can anyone provide more information on this? the following link will take you to a www.opentv.com page with 14 links to optv and wind....this will answer your question quite thoroughly. opentv.com clip....Delivered as Windows NT or Solaris source code. Designed to run on LynxOS, QNX, OS-9, VxWorks, and pSOS vxworks and psos are wind products. ditto here for liberate... liberate.com i believe liberate uses wind's vxworks and tornado products. bottom line imo, you will see wind in products from both. uw

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (31032)	9/4/2000 3:26:11 PM
From: voop	Respond to of 54805

Art In adding to unclewest's response to your question, I would like to point out that WIND is an investor of Liberate as well. windriver.com Wind River Systems - Liberate Strategic Relationship Produces Software for Set-Top Boxes, Internet Appliances Alameda, CA, May 20, 1999 — Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIND), the world leader in embedded development software for the post-PC era, today announced that its strategic alliance with Liberate Technologies, formerly known as Network Computer Inc., is the core technology behind some of today’s most far-reaching Internet-enabled television devices. This strategic alliance was first revealed in September, 1996 and enhanced by Wind River’s recent investment in Liberate. The combination of Wind River and Liberate software is enabling service providers and device manufacturers to develop and deploy the next-generation TV set-top box technology. Wind River’s VxWorks® operating system serves as the underlying control software for many of Liberate’s design wins in the domestic and international television space. "Liberate’s software supports operating systems that are fast, reliable and support a broad range of microprocessors,” said Charlie Tritschler, Liberate’s vice president of marketing. "Our relationship with Wind River allows our engineers to focus on our Internet platform and applications, while VxWorks handles the operating system details. The ultimate benefit is that our network operator and information appliance customers receive a complete platform.” Liberate’s service provider customers include America Online, Belgacom, Cable and Wireless, MagiNet, NEC, NTL and US WEST. Liberate’s device manufacturer customers include Acer Corporation, Boca Research, and Hughes Network Systems. Liberate also provides tools based on Wind River’s Tornado™ development environment for creating set-top and television applications. Tornado was instrumental, for example, in the design of the hybrid DIRECTV/AOL TV set-top box manufactured by Hughes Network Systems for America Online. By using Wind River’s platform, HNS was able to concentrate on the application portions of the receiver, and produce a set-top appliance optimized for delivering digital content over satellite TV. In addition to set-top boxes, Wind River and Liberate are cooperating on a variety of other Internet-enabled devices. Fujitsu Limited has already included Wind River and Liberate software in its InterTop PDA. Voop