February 9, 2005 – Raleigh, NC and Toulon, France – Thales, a global leader in providing integrated PowerPC- and Pentium-based VME COTS computing systems and solutions to OEMs and system integrators, today announced it has formed an alliance partnership with Wind River, the global leader in device software optimization.
The partnership provides Thales’ computer activities with early access to next-generation, market-specific Wind River Platforms and software development licenses for a range of real-time operating systems and development environments. By porting the company’s VxWorks Board-Support Packages (BSPs) to these platforms ahead of time, Thales’ computers activities enable customers to market new applications faster. With this ever-improving range of BSPs. Thales and Wind River are also ensuring forward- and backward-compatibility for legacy application code.
“This partnership formalizes a close collaboration that we have had with Wind River. It allows us to develop synergies along with new solutions such as turn-key systems for high-performance embedded computing,” said Thales Computers CEO, Alain Albarello. “We have recently discovered a great deal of synergy between our product lines and want to progress aggressively along that path. Wind River’s tools and OS technologies, combined with Thales’ low-level management solutions and turn-key hardware platforms, create a revolutionary approach to embedded VME board systems.”
“In the defense market where the COTS user often needs to talk to multiple suppliers to solve complex support or technology insertion issues, this type of partnership is the foundation from which more integrated long-term support services between suppliers can be built,” added Albarello.
About Thales
Thales is an international electronics and systems group serving the defense, aerospace, services and security markets. The group employs 61,500 people worldwide and generated revenues of €10.6 billion in 2003. Thales’ computer activities include development of commercial and ruggedized VMEbus systems solutions based on PowerPC and Pentium microprocessors. Thales’ products are optimized for a wide variety of applications in the military, aerospace, transportation, communications, and industrial markets and are used by customers worldwide, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Bombardier, Toshiba, BAE, British Aerospace, Ericsson, Alcatel, Thales Group and others. Additional information about products and services can be found at www.thalescomputers.com or by contacting Thales at +1.800.848.2330.
About Wind River
Wind River is the global leader in device software optimization (DSO). The company enables customers to develop and run device software better, faster, at a lower cost and more reliably. Wind River’s Workbench, General Purpose Platform and Market-Specific Platforms reduce effort, cost and risk, and optimize quality and reliability at all phases of the device software development process from concept to deployed product. Founded in 1981, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California, with operations worldwide. Wind River Systems and the Wind River Systems logo are trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc., and VxWorks is a registered trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. To learn more, visit Wind River at www.windriver.com or at +1.800.872.4977.
