NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

• Wind River Marketplace allows customers to enhance VxWorks implementation with best-of-breed solutions from Wind River partner ecosystem.
• VxWorks app store includes packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools.
• Wind River demonstrates continued innovation for its industry-leading real-time operating system with latest initiative.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – June 16, 2015 – Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things (IoT), has introduced an app store for its VxWorks® real-time operating system (RTOS). Wind River Marketplace helps customers find and evaluate best-of-breed add-on solutions from the Wind River partner ecosystem in order to enhance their VxWorks deployment.

Tested and validated by Wind River for seamless interoperability with VxWorks, the solutions found in Wind River Marketplace enrich the VxWorks operating environment with categories of packages ranging from safety, security, and storage to connectivity, graphics, and development tools. Customer benefits include simplified “try-before-buy” options, a modern app store experience, and easy installation and evaluation of complementary software. Via Marketplace, Wind River also houses an extensive range of board support packages (BSPs) in the embedded software industry to aid with board bring-up and design.

“With the synergy and validation already achieved for Wind River Marketplace products, customers get almost immediate access to best-in-class embedded technologies to easily enhance the operating environment and accelerate market deployment,” said Dinyar Dastoor, vice president and general manager of operating system platforms at Wind River. “Marketplace creates a robust ecosystem offering for our customers, and provides our partners with a unique opportunity to showcase their products and distribute evaluation versions to our vast customer base.”

Recognized as an industry-leading RTOS, VxWorks delivers deterministic performance and sets the standard for a scalable, future-proof, safe, and secure operating environment for connected devices in IoT.

More information about Wind River Marketplace is available at http://tinyurl.com/WRMarketplace. To learn more about VxWorks visit http://tinyurl.com/WRVxWorks.