ALT Software's OpenGL ES Products to Be Distributed With Wind River's New Platform for Automotive Devices; See ALT OpenGL ES Embedded Technology on ALT's Booth at Wind River 2005 User Conference in Orlando May 22-25

ORLANDO, Fla.--May 23, 2005--ALT Software is pleased to announce that Wind River Systems, Inc. , has chosen to provide ALT's OpenGL(R) and OpenGL ES solutions as part of Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices. ALT's OpenGL coupled with Wind River's fully integrated, enterprise-wide telematics platform provides a comprehensive device development solution that enables automotive manufacturers to create innovative telematics devices better, faster, at a lower cost and more reliably.

As part of ALT's support for Wind River Platform for Automotive Devices, ALT is providing hardware-accelerated OpenGL 2D/3D drivers to support Wind River's VxWorks(TM) RTOS running on a variety of different hardware configurations, including Freescale's Media5200 development kit and Fujitsu's Coral PA graphics chip.

"The automotive telematics market is rapidly converging with the consumer and networking device markets, and automotive device manufacturers are under increasing pressure to support the demand for more complex technologies, including support for 2D/3D graphics, while maintaining quality and reliability," says Chris Brady, president of ALT Software. "Wind River's VxWorks RTOS and Workbench integrated development environment, combined with ALT's OpenGL expertise, provides a stable and high performance environment to meet the demands of this industry."

"ALT Software is a prominent developer of OpenGL implementations for the automotive telematics industry," says John Alexander, senior automotive product manager at Wind River. "ALT's OpenGL ES solutions, combined with Wind River's powerful Device Software Optimization software, offers telematics device developers a powerful, end-to-end device development solution that helps create intricate graphical displays and provides support for next-generation technologies."

ALT's OpenGL Expertise

ALT has over a decade of experience developing for OpenGL. ALT drivers conform to specifications for OpenGL 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3, and ALT has added several OpenGL 1.4 & 2.0 functions as well as support for many OpenGL extensions. ALT has also extended OpenGL to support video capture and display. To further reinforce its leadership role in embedded OpenGL development, ALT is a Member of the OpenGL ARB & SGI OpenGL level 2 licensee and is a member of Khronos Group, working on defining OpenGL ES & OpenGL ES Safety Critical.

See Technology Demonstrations at Wind River's Worldwide User Conference in Orlando, Florida

Developers, editors or analysts interested in learning more about ALT or Wind River are invited to see a demonstration of OpenGL on VxWorks on ALT's booth #22 at Wind River's Worldwide User Conference in Orlando, Florida, on May 22, 2005-25, 2005, at Omni Orlando Resort. Please email marcom@altsoftware.com for an appointment or more information. More details: http://www.altsoftware.com/company/media_center/events/index.php#windriver2005 (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.).

About ALT Software Inc.

Founded 1994, with offices in Toronto and Waterloo, Ontario, ALT Software provides professional application and system level software and hardware development services to organizations across a broad range of sectors. ALT specializes in hardware-related software engineering, with expertise in embedded systems, 3D/2D graphics, OpenGL and OpenGL ES, avionics display drivers, video, audio, networking and mobile technologies.

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