Teaming with market leader Wind River allows GoAhead Software to help thousands of VxWorks customers reduce their support costs and differentiate their products by providing a live connection to devices and appliances via the Internet, said Michael O Brien, chief executive officer of GoAhead. Dynamic Upgrading Made Simple GoAhead FieldUpgrader enables devices to periodically phone home to an upgrade server via the Internet. The devices can then be remotely updated with the latest software upgrades at anytime and anyplace. GoAhead FieldUpgrader eliminates the need for users to call tech support lines to receive assistance on upgrades, have a technician come out to upgrade the software inside their devices, or even be aware that an upgrade has taken place. Inc. Wind River Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in embedded software.
Wind River is how smart things think.
Founded in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations in fifteen countries worldwide. The company leverages Internet standards to address the problem of managing devices and appliances from a unique orientation from inside the device . GoAhead s solutions enable manufacturers to reduce or eliminate the need for costly and ineffective external management and support by using the intelligence resident in the device or appliance to internally manage faults and upgrades. The privately held company was formed in 1995 and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. Inc. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations.