Coverity Helps Wind River Reduce Software Time-to-Market by 20 Percent and Achieve Coverity Clean™ Status
World Leader in Device Software Optimization Rolls Out Coverity Source Code Analysis Solution Company-Wide to Help Customers Produce Secure Software Faster

GLOBALCOMM 2006, CHICAGO, June 7 – Coverity, Inc., makers of the world’s most advanced source code analysis solution, today announced that their software is being deployed by developers at Wind River (NASDAQ:WIND) to make the code in their embedded systems more reliable and secure. After using Coverity Prevent to detect defects in their Eclipse-based Workbench Development Suite for the past year, Wind River has conducted an enterprise roll-out to ensure higher code quality in their other products.

Wind River provides device software optimization solutions, including the popular Workbench development suite and VxWorks and Linux real-time operating systems. Their platforms are deployed in more than 300 million devices, ranging from cell phones to the Mars Rover. Wind River technology is widely used in the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking equipment and aerospace and defense industries, with customers who include BMW, Ericsson, Siemens, Nortel and Lockheed Martin.

“We compared and evaluated a number of programming and error detection tools and Coverity was superior,” said Bob Ellis, engineering manager within Wind River. “Since deploying Coverity Prevent, we’ve seen a significant reduction in time spent on code review, which can translate to a reduction in time-to-market for our customers. Thanks to the time saved, our investment in Coverity’s products will have paid for itself in as little as one year.”

“When developing device software, software quality is paramount. By using Coverity products to analyze millions of lines of code prior to formal inspections and unit tests, we save time, money and engineering bandwidth, allowing us respond effectively to aggressive development schedules,” added Ellis. “The real beauty here is being able to drop a powerful tool like this, quickly into our development environment, with minimal or no change to our development process.”

“As a global leader in device software optimization with a diverse product line, Wind River knows the importance of improving QA without disrupting development schedules,” said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity. “Systems built on Wind River products are deployed to the ends of the earth and beyond, so their code needs to be completely robust under the most extreme circumstances.”

“By achieving Coverity Clean status, Wind River is proving their commitment to identify software flaws and fix all relevant software defects,” said David Park, VP of business development and marketing for Coverity and head of the Coverity Clean program. “We have confidence in the quality and security of Wind River products and the development processes they use to build, analyze, and test quality software.”

About Coverity
Coverity (www.coverity.com), makers of the most advanced source code analysis solution, is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco. Coverity’s ground-breaking technology removes the barriers to writing and delivering complex software by automatically finding critical software defects and security vulnerabilities as the software is written. More than 100 leading companies choose Coverity because it scales to tens of millions of lines of code, has the lowest false positive rate and provides 100 percent path coverage. Companies like Juniper Networks, Symantec/VERITAS, McAfee, Synopsys, NASA, PalmOne, Sun Microsystems and Wind River work with Coverity’s tools to eliminate security and quality defects from their mission-critical code and make their products Coverity Clean.

NOTE: Coverity is a registered trademark, and Coverity Extend and Coverity Prevent are trademarks of Coverity, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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