Wind River Systems Inc is working on a full range of graphics APIs and products for embedded system developers that it will offer next year. Wind River, which recently bought Zinc Software Inc for its embedded GUI has HTML running on the software it sells to Network Computing Inc. Its Java work has 75 design win and it plans to offer a whole range of other graphics APIs. After languishing in the Unix market for years, the rise and rise of embedded systems drive by convergence demands and use of small footprint devices has galvanized the company. Last week it reported third quarter net income up 38% at $7.2m compared with $5.2m last time on revenue that rose 40% to $33.6m over $24m. All parts of the business show healthy gains except the engineering services that remained flat due to the effect of the slump in the semiconductor market. The $0.5m to $1.5m porting jobs it undertakes have slowed to a trickle. The company’s business is split 55%-45% between Unix and Windows NT. North America contributed 69% of its $33.6m third quarter revenue, Europe was 17% and Japan 14%. Run-time revenue is between 20% and 40% of its overall business and increasing, though it wouldn’t be more specific. Embedded license sales grew around 50% in the quarter. Wind River says its forthcoming use of the i2O input/output architecture will not conflict with Intel Corp’s planned Next Generation I/O (NGIO) specification for Servers, replacing PCI bus. Meaningful revenue from i2O products won’t be seen until next year, it says. 130 companies are now backing the architecture. Wind River says it has a couple of set-to design wins up its sleeve to go public with over the next couple of quarter. 27% of its 563 staff are now dedicated to customer service.
