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To: Ronald Paul who wrote (5376)	6/4/1999 7:19:00 PM
From: Peter Church	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10309

Hi Ronald, Wind River couldn't have been driving too many customers away with their price structure if WRS has 50% of the market and growing. I am really curious how you see the price competition with CE. Is Tornado more expensive? Can you compare the two? Thanks, I believe the post you made a little over a year ago is here: exchange2000.com

To: Ronald Paul who wrote (5376)	6/5/1999 2:38:00 AM
From: w2j2	Respond to of 10309

I wonder if having to swallow this pricing change is one reason why Abelman quit? Along with delays in TMS and T2, and failure to pull off the developer's conference..

To: Ronald Paul who wrote (5376)	6/5/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: James Connolly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10309

Ron, As I see it, yesterday's press release about the change in pricing structure goes hand in hand with the release of tornado II. Tornado II as I am sure you are aware is a much slicker product than Tornado I. It has lots of nice features such as task wizards and is generally far more user friendly. Such a product should require vastly last support or hand holding from WIND as compared to T1. Perhaps it is only with the release of T2 that WIND is in a position to tackle the real embedded mass market and maybe the change in pricing is just the final touch. At the CC's Ron always mentions that the real competition for WIND is not from the other RTOS companies but from the in-house RTOS. Perhaps T2 coupled with the new pricing structure is what's needed to finally convert over the remaining in-house RTOS brigade to WIND's products. I think this bodes well for the future. Regards JC.