Combining the resources of Wind River Systems and ISI enables the company to achieve this objective. In the past, Wind River Systems has been highly successful in creating, selling and servicing generic software operating systems and development tools for a broad array of markets. Wind River Systems sold largely the same products to multiple, varied industries. This approach has worked well and will in the future for many of new the Wind River customers. Through the merger with ISI, the new Wind River will be able to meet the specific needs of customers with more targeted solutions.
Wind River is an elemental operating system company.
The combined organization will provide all of the basic embedded software elements required to build targeted solutions for customers so that they can bring complex products to market quickly. Wind River and ISI share the belief that a deterministic operating system, powerful development tools and broad support for networking connectivity should serve as the base platform for any product built on embedded software. The new Wind River will continue to build on the technical and human strengths of both companies and show a strong force in the overall operating system market. The competition for the new combined companies includes commercial RTOS's and tool companies including Mentor Graphics, Microware, QNX and Green Hills, among others. Additional competition comes from proprietary operating systems developed internally.