Date: 21/04/2011

Wind River expands its development team to support Android

Wind River has expanded its global network of development centers with the addition of an engineering team in Stockholm, Sweden focused on mobile technologies. Wind River said its increasing research and development investments include a concentrated effort to grow its Android expertise for a wider range of Android-based devices including tablets, media phones and other device classes. In the past year, Wind River said it has achieved a significant acceleration in the number of mobile solution design wins and triple-digit growth in its mobile business segment.

Wind River's new team in Sweden with expertise in mobile and Android OS platform to work on advanced user experience capabilities and Android enablement for broader device categories. Wind River has development centers in Austria, Canada, Germany, France, Israel and Romania and across the United States and Asia including China, Japan and South Korea but not in India.

Wind River has appointed Jerry Ashford as vice president and general manager of mobile solutions. Prior to joining Wind River, Ashford was vice president of the Emerging Markets Software Line of Business at Sun Microsystems and also previously worked at Motorola.

"With the fast growth of mobile technologies such as Android, OEMs are increasingly under pressure to quickly develop innovative yet industry compliant mobile devices. Customers can turn to Wind River for commercial-quality software solutions to rapidly develop high-quality products," said Ashford. "Wind River has made major strides to grow the mobile business globally. In particular, we've achieved strong success in China, the world's largest mobile market."

Though Wind River is Intel owned company but is working its software and services for processor neutral market without any bias.