ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has extended its relationship with GoAhead Software, a worldwide leader in middleware for embedded systems. Wind River is now the preferred integration partner for GoAhead Software’s OpenSAFfire offering and GoAhead Software is Wind River's preferred partner for commercial OpenSAF solutions. Together, Wind River and GoAhead Software provide a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution for an open source platform integrating industry standards-based high availability and Linux. Additionally, Wind River has introduced Wind River OpenSAF Quickstart, a professional services and technical support package designed to help customers who are using the OpenSAF open source project for quick prototyping or are struggling with developing their own OpenSAF applications.

"The popularity of open source for high availability systems continues to rise. For example, we have seen significant adoption of OpenSAF in the aerospace and defense and networking industries. Since becoming the first company to join the OpenSAF Foundation after its creation in 2008, Wind River has continued to actively contribute to the project and build expertise in OpenSAF," said Michael Krutz, vice president of worldwide solutions and services at Wind River. "Wind River helps developers jump-start their projects and focus their efforts on differentiation, whether they select a commercial off-the-shelf solution such as OpenSAFfire or are using the open source route to create a prototype of an OpenSAF implementation."

"We're seeing a growing momentum for open source software for high availability middleware, and OpenSAF is quickly becoming the de facto standard for these systems," said Bill Yaman, senior vice president of sales and marketing at GoAhead Software. "OpenSAFfire is the only commercial distribution of OpenSAF, and the significant increase in demand means that GoAhead needs a partner with the services capacity to complement our own offerings. We are pleased to be partnering with Wind River and expect our mutual customers to benefit greatly from this partnership."

Wind River Systems Inc.