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News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 April 2004
Workbench wins top show award
Wind River Systems has taken top honours at the RTS Embedded Systems show in Paris, France, winning the "Best of show" award for Wind River Workbench, former known as WindPower IDE 2.0.
Wind River Systems has taken top honours at the RTS Embedded Systems show in Paris, France, winning the "Best of show" award for Wind River Workbench, former known as WindPower IDE 2.0 Wind River Workbench is the company's next generation, Eclipse-based integrated development environment (IDE) which will offer support for both VxWorks and Linux - the standards in device software optimisation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Winners of the RTS "Best of show" award were chosen by conference delegates, which included companies building device software for the industrial, automotive and transportation, aerospace and defence and telecom markets.
Wind River also won "Best of show" at the RTS Embedded Systems conference last year for its submission of Wind River Platforms - its tightly integrated, industry-specific set of technologies and tools designed to help customers optimise their device software development.
"The RTS show delegates were highly motivated this year and looking for innovative solutions and new industry standards.
We are delighted that our new product portfolio in support of Linux and VxWorks grabbed their attention", said Steve Harris, Regional Director North West Region.
"The Wind River Workbench clearly offers customers a compelling solution for standardising device software development across both VxWorks and Linux, and we are thrilled to accept this award from the RTS conference and its delegates".
At Electronica USA Embedded Systems Conference, Wind River's device software that powers NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Exploration Rovers - Spirit and Opportunity - won the overall "Best of show" award, as well as the best aerospace and defence product.
The Weather Channel's Intellistar won "Best of show" within the communications category.
Wind River enabled its customers - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and The Weather Channel - to develop and run the software that powers their respective devices faster, better, at a lower cost and more reliably.
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