for the windows driver suite see jungo windriver . for windriver see wind river disambiguation . coordinates 37 46 52 n 122 15 43 w 37.78116 n 122.26195 w 37.78116 ; 122.26195 wind river systems inc. type subsidiary founded 1981 headquarters alameda california u.s. key people jim douglas president revenue us 359.7 million fy ended jan 31 2009 1 number of employees 1 800 2 11 2012 parent intel website www.windriver.com wind river is a subsidiary company of intel providing embedded system software which comprises run time software industry specific software solutions simulation technology development tools and middleware . 3 on june 4 2009 wind river announced that intel had bought the company for a reported 884 million . 4 wind river continues to exist as a wholly owned subsidiary of intel . its product portfolio is supported by global professional services and support 5 and a broad partner ecosystem . 6 wind river concentrates on middleware software and operating systems for information appliances and devices for intelligent connected systems . wind river s technologies are used in a wide range of markets including aerospace & defense automotive energy industrial medical consumer electronics and networking & communications . 7 their products are used in industrial and transportation systems such as factory automation robotics rail transport smart grids ; military systems such as unmanned vehicles and military communications telecommunication infrastructure equipment such as routers ; automotive systems such as connected in vehicle infotainment digital cluster displays telematics braking systems ; consumer devices such as multifunction printers . digital cameras projectors set top boxes traffic signals aircraft and aerospace systems such as mars rovers mer a and mer b. 8 among their flagship products are the vxworks real time operating system the wind river linux operating system and the eclipse based wind river workbench ide . vxworks began as an add on to the vrtx operating system in the early 1980s . wind river workbench superseded the previous tornado environment . 9 wind river s head offices are located at 500 wind river way alameda california . the company s corporate umbrella message is focused on the critical role of software for the internet of things iot . 10 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 vxworks 2.2 wind river linux 2.3 wind river diab compiler 2.4 tilcon graphics suite 2.5 simics 2.6 wind river titanium server 2.7 edge management system 2.8 bsd os 3 awards 4 acquisitions 5 competitors 6 sponsorship 7 references 8 further reading 9 external links history edit wind river systems was formed by a partnership of jerry fiddler 11 and dave wilner . 12 13 in 1981 fiddler had come out of berkeley labs 14 to write software for control systems but wanted to pursue a career in computer generated music 15 which he funded through a consultancy business focused on real time . his early clients included the national football league and film director francis ford coppola for whom he designed a unique film editing system . 16 wilner a former colleague at berkeley joined fiddler and they formed a partnership called wind river systems named after wind river wyoming where fiddler had vacationed that year . some of the key milestones are 17 18 1983 wind river is incorporated in 1983 with each partner contributing 3 000 and a desk to the business . 1987 wind river introduces vxworks a leading real time operating system for embedded devices . 1995 vxworks launches into space on the nasa clementine moon probe . also the tornado integrated development environment is launched and wins edn s embedded development software innovation of the year award as the first graphically oriented development environment for embedded . 1997 vxworks the real time operating system for nasa s mars pathfinder mission lands on mars . 19 1999 acquisition of one of their major competitors integrated systems inc. makers of psos . wind river has since discontinued the psos product line and has recommended existing psos customers move to vxworks 2004 wind river officially enters the embedded linux market 20 with a carrier grade linux platform targeting the networking & communications infrastructure industry . also nasa s mars exploration rovers spirit and opportunity powered by vxworks 21 land on mars . wind river helped in manufacturing the intellistar for the weather channel . the intellistar is used at cable headends to insert local weather into the weather channel s national programming . 2007 wind river joins google s open handset alliance as an original linux commercialization partner . 22 2008 wind river establishes the embedded linux market share lead with greater than 30 percent of total market revenue four years after entering the market . 23 2009 intel acquires wind river for approximately 884 million and it becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of intel . wind river launches a commercial android software platform . 24 wind river becomes a founding member of the genivi alliance . 25 2010 wind river adds simics 26 a full system simulator to its product portfolio . vxworks becomes the first rtos to be certified under wurldtech s achilles certification program 27 a standard for industrial cyber security . wind river partners with intel and the linux foundation to create the yocto project 28 an open source collaboration project providing templates tools and methods to help developers create embedded linux based systems . 2011 vdc research names wind river the embedded market leader ; including title of traditional rtos market leader for its complete portfolio of products and services for the 2nd consecutive year led by its vxworks rtos ; and as the embedded linux market leader for the 3rd consecutive year for its wind river linux platform and related solutions . 29 2012 nasa jet propulsion laboratory jpl successfully lands mars science laboratory rover curiosity powered by wind river technology . 21 wind river debuts software platform targeted at gateways and hubs for the internet of things . 30 2013 wind river becomes part of intel s internet of things group iotg but remains a wholly owned subsidiary . 31 2014 wind river introduces its commercial carrier grade software platform for network functions virtualization nfv applications as well as its next generation vxworks platform reinvented for the internet of things . 32 33 2014 wind river fined 750 000 by bureau of industry and security for exporting encryption technology to countries including israel and south korea . 34 in 2015 the company was accused of repeated trademark and licensing violations of the grsecurity project which as response has restricted its code to commercial partners only . 35 in 2016 intel announced that it intended to fully integrate wind river into one of its divisions thus ending wind river s status as a wholly owned subsidiary although the scheduled completion date of this action has not been made public . barry mainz left the company and jim douglas assumes the position of president . products edit vxworks edit main article vxworks vxworks is the original flagship product of wind river . it is a real time operating system intended for embedded devices . it runs on many architectures and supports features such as smp ipv6 tipc and memory protection . wind river linux edit wind river s linux product is source code and a build system that generate runtime images suitable for embedded devices . it supports a variety of architectures including arm mips powerpc ia32 and sparc . in 2004 wind river announced a partnership with red hat to create a new linux based distribution for embedded devices . 36 wind river has since ended its partnership with red hat and now ships its own linux distribution optimized for embedded linux development . wind river released the first version of its embedded linux distribution platform for network equipment linux edition pne le 1.0 in 2005 . 37 it was registered against the carrier grade linux 2.0 specification and supported ia32 and ppc architectures . they added other platforms in subsequent releases general purpose platform linux edition gpp le and platform for consumer devices linux edition pcd le starting in version 1.4 . in 2013 wind river announced wind river linux 6.0 . 38 wind river systems acquired fsmlabs embedded technology in february 2007 39 and made a version available as wind river real time core for wind river linux . as of august 2011 wind river has discontinued the wind river real time core product line effectively ending commercial support for the rtlinux product . citation needed on august 7 2007 palm inc. announced that it had chosen wind river systems as the software solution for its later aborted palm foleo . in 2008 wind river announced cooperation with bmw intel and magneti marelli for development of a linux based open source platform to control in car electronics 40 which was extended in the genivi alliance in 2009 . 41 in 2012 wind river introduced a new version of wind river linux that was developed from the yocto project open source development infrastructure and has achieved yocto project compatible registration . 38 wind river diab compiler edit wind river acquired dataindustrier ab s diab compiler as part of its acquisition of integrated systems inc. 42 originally designed by wind river s former cto tomas evensen it is now available as part of wind river s vxworks platforms . it can also be licensed separately for non vxworks users . the compiler supports powerpc arm mips sh coldfire tricore intel and more architectures . tilcon graphics suite edit tilcon software limited was acquired by wind river in 2009 . the tilcon software consists of a graphical user interface builder a tool that runs on a windows or linux host and a gui engine that runs on an embedded processor that renders graphics through a number of different standard graphics libraries . the tilcon software supports vxworks linux and windows operating systems . simics edit the simics full system simulator was added to wind river s product portfolio after the acquisition of virtutech by intel in 2010 . wind river titanium server edit introduced in 2014 the wind river titanium server provides a network functions virtualization nfv software platform used by network equipment suppliers to build nfv equipment . 43 the product is based on wind river open virtualization and includes wind river linux an optimized real time kernel based virtual machine kvm intel data plane development kit intel dpdk accelerated vswitch technologies and carrier grade enhancements to openstack . the server provides the following basic capabilities 44 45 46 fault tolerant capable of being configured to achieve a range of service availability requirements including six nines availability which is achieved by carrier grade fault management features and reliable software . performance carrier grade accelerated vswitch avs responsible for providing the vm to vm virtual machine and vm to the outside network achieves high and efficient network performance and scalability to maximize the number of subscribers per server . the accelerated vswitch avs achieves a 20 fold improvement in performance . 47 manageability scheduling and orchestration of workloads failures and security to management service level agreements slas . the platform manages applications through existing oss bss nms systems operation support system business support system network monitoring system and uses standards based application programming interfaces apis edge management system edit the edge management system is a pre integrated software stack that runs from the embedded device up through the cloud to reduce product development times and total cost of ownership . it is a white label offering of ptc solution formerly axeda i.e. it uses ptc to provide this service . the system is validated to work out of the box with all intel internet of things iot platform components as well as other iot vendors components . the edge management system agent enables cloud connectivity to facilitate capabilities such as data capture rules based data analysis and response configuration and file transfer . it allows customers to quickly build industry