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To: Dealer who wrote (3601)	9/25/2000 12:39:38 PM
From: Dealer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

WIND--GoAhead SelfReliant Software to Support New Wind River Operating System Service Availability Technology to Increase Availability and Functionality In VxWorks AE BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000--GoAhead® Software, the leading provider of off-the-shelf service availability software, today announced that the GoAhead SelfReliant(TM) product line will support the new VxWorks®AE operating system from Wind River Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WIND - news), a worldwide leader in embedded -- software and services. Increasing system reliability and functionality, SelfReliant 7000 will further enable developers using VxWorks® AE to deliver products with 99.999 percent service availability. GoAhead SelfReliant 7000 embodies a new customer-centric approach to service availability that enables infrastructure equipment manufacturers using VxWorks AE to achieve ``five-nines'' system uptime (less than five minutes of downtime per year) and maintain customer connections without interruption -- regardless of individual component failures. SelfReliant 7000 provides transaction integrity -- the ability for communications systems to maintain active customer connections and transactions without interruption, despite hardware or software failures in the infrastructure. ``GoAhead's SelfReliant software will leverage and extend VxWorks AE benefits by enabling manufacturers to develop robust systems that meet the stringent reliability and availability demands placed on them by their customers,'' said Jim Airy, vice president of marketing for GoAhead Software. ``We are excited to be a part of Wind River's development of this platform, helping to enable an entire generation of new self reliant devices built on their innovative technology.'' Striking an ideal balance between memory protection and the high performance levels associated with unprotected development platforms, Wind River's highly reliable VxWorks AE is an advanced, real-time operating system and integrated development environment designed with customers' reliability, availability, serviceability and security (RASS) requirements in mind. As service availability is a critical requirement for telecom and electronic service providers and manufacturers of smart devices, VxWorks AE will meet the needs of embedded systems demanding RASS requirements, including service-critical Internet infrastructure equipment and Internet appliances, mission-critical defense and aerospace systems, and life-critical medical products. ``We are delighted to have the opportunity to partner with a leading provider of service availability software, helping us to advance the reliability features on Wind River's VxWorks AE RTOS,'' said Dave Sheaffer, senior director of product marketing for Wind River's Platforms business unit. ``The combination of GoAhead's SelfReliant 7000 with our new VxWorks AE operating system will allow us to offer our equipment manufacturers significant improvements on the serviceability of their devices while increasing time-to-market.'' With deployment efforts currently underway to select companies such as Wind River, GoAhead plans a general release of SelfReliant 7000 in the fourth quarter of this year. About GoAhead SelfReliant 7000 SelfReliant 7000 is a comprehensive management software solution for network infrastructure. It consists of a set of high-performance, integrated availability functions that monitor and manage all hardware, OS, and application resources across all nodes of a system. These functions capture data from system resources in real time, dynamically reconfigure the system as required to maintain service availability, and provide such services as fault management, availability management, and access and administration. The product supports industry-standard, high-availability communications platforms such as CompactPCI®, and works with a number of key operating systems, including Linux 2.2, LynxOS 3.1, Solaris 8, VxWorks, VxWorks AE, WindowsNT 4.0, and Windows2000. About GoAhead Software, Inc. GoAhead Software (http://www.goahead.com) is the leading provider of service availability software for Internet infrastructure. The GoAhead SelfReliant product line manages communications devices and servers internally and collectively to provide on-demand, uninterrupted service for Internet users. GoAhead off-the-shelf solutions accelerate time-to-market for equipment manufacturers and reduce equipment and support costs. The privately held company was formed in 1995 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

To: Dealer who wrote (3601)	9/25/2000 12:58:53 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 65232

Will the Korean Pie GROW LARGER...? Two Koreas Agree to Reduce Military Tension CHEJU, South Korea (Reuters) - Defense ministers from North and South Korea agreed on Monday to work toward building links and easing military tension on the divided peninsula. The talks between South Korea's Defense Minister Cho Seong-tae and the North's Kim Il-chol, were the first between defense chiefs of the two Korea's in half a century. Their two-day meeting on the South Korean island of Cheju followed a summit in Pyongyang in June between South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and the North's leader, Kim Jong-il. The two defense ministers agreed to promote relations in the spirit of the June landmark summit, officials said. ``The two sides shared the view in principle they will try to militarily ensure the actual implementation of the historic June declaration,'' Seoul's defense ministry spokesman, Yoon Il-young, told reporters after the talks. ``Besides the military cooperation in relinking a railway and road across the border, the two sides agreed to continue to discuss other confidence-building measures,'' he said. The spokesman said any agreements would be announced in a joint communique at the end of the talks on Tuesday. Despite the rapidly warming ties between the two old enemies, little progress has so far been made in reducing military tension between them. The talks come as North Korea faces another tough winter with more severe food shortages looming. South Korea's President Kim said on Sunday North Korea, hard hit by recent droughts and typhoons, could face even worse food shortages next year and urged Japan to send more food aid. A MILLION MINES North Korean officials said last week they wanted to limit discussion to military cooperation in the construction of rail and road links across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas. The road and rail project is one of several initiatives that followed June's summit and is the most concrete sign yet of a thaw in relations between the two Koreas, who remain technically at war under a 1953 armed truce. South Korea has budgeted 500 billion won ($440 million) for the project and President Kim last week inaugurated work on the southern side. Pyongyang has not said when it will begin work on its side. The two Koreas have no transport links. Yoon said the South's Cho proposed establishing a committee to deal with military cooperation for the road and rail project, scheduled to be completed next September, including cooperation on the removal of land mines. An estimated one million land mines are planted in the four-km (2.5 mile) wide DMZ. Other issues the southern side proposed at the talks included setting up a military hotline, notification of large troop movements and observation of major military exercises. A senior South Korean foreign ministry official said the South also proposed holding a second defense ministers' meeting in Pyongyang in November. Yoon said a decision on regular talks had not been reached. NORTH A THREAT Speaking to Defense Secretary William Cohen and top military officials at an annual security meeting last week, Cho said the Cheju talks were highly significant. He said despite the June summit there had been little progress in easing military tension and the North remained a threat. ``Despite the changes, there has been little real progress in dismantling military tensions between the two Koreas, as North Korea's military threat remains the same,'' Cho said. Cohen said last week in Tokyo that North Korea has strengthened its military readiness in the past year and must reverse that trend if it hopes to win more economic support from South Korea, Japan and the United States. ``Its forces today are more prepared than they were a year ago... They are doing more training today than they did last year. They have more forward-deployed artillery pieces than ever before,'' Cohen said. South Korean President Kim said he wants the United States to keep its 37,000 troops in the South despite signs of improving North-South ties.