"While industry-wide consolidation is creating giant suppliers who attempt to supply all services, we are increasingly focused on strategic relationships where each party can leverage unique expertise," said Lars Österberg, President, Enea OSE Systems. "Green Hills and Enea OSE Systems both bring to the table a long history of solving difficulties in the development of embedded telecommunications systems. Our commitment to collaboration includes not only this integration, but also the exchange of ideas and developments for a future road map supporting the PowerPC and other processors."

"We are dedicated to entering the new millennium with fewer boundaries to integration," said David Chandler, VP Sales, Green Hills Software. "Creating one highly integrated environment for debugging is a giant step towards ending the fragmentation that has proven so frustrating for embedded systems developers, particularly in the high-end embedded telecom industry where Green Hills and OSE have worked so effectively."

Both Enea OSE Systems and Green Hills Software have focused their efforts in the telecommunications arena, creating software solutions for developers of high-end embedded telecom systems. The OSE real-time operating system (RTOS) and Green Hills' optimizing compilers, debuggers, and MULTI(r) Integrated Development Environment are used in thousands of projects and millions of communications products worldwide.

The OSE Illuminator provides application-level debugging for complex applications that need to execute during the debug process, such as high-availability systems in telecommunications. Illuminator also serves as a backplane connecting the tools needed for embedded application development. Illuminator can be used in small, single-CPU environments or large distributed systems using hundreds of CPUs.

Green Hills Software's MULTI 2000 automates all aspects of embedded software development. Included in the MULTI IDE is a family of optimizing compilers (C, C++, and EC++), source-level debugger, graphical browser, project builder execution profiler, source and version control software, and run-time error checker.

About Enea OSE Systems

Enea OSE Systems is the technological leader for real-time operating systems and development tools for building distributed and fault-tolerant embedded real-time systems. Enea OSE Systems is a subsidiary of Enea Data, a Swedish company founded in 1968 and listed on the Swedish Stock Exchange. With a work force of more than 100 persons, the core of Enea OSE Systems' business has always been the development of time-critical and highly reliable real-time operating systems and time saving, efficient, development tools. Enea OSE Systems' customers are found within the telecommunications, data communications, process control, automotive, defense, biomedical technology and consumer electronic industries.

The OSE RTOS supports fault-tolerant systems that are designed to allow recovery from hardware and software failures. OSE differs from other RTOSs by adopting message-passing as its primary method of interprocess communication. Because of its support for high-availability systems, OSE has a particularly significant impact in the telecommunications industry. The OSE RTOS includes built-in safety features that have qualified it for International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61508 certification. IEC 61508 for Functional Safety of Safety Related Systems is a standard for safety-critical systems. In addition, the OSE RTOS is currently seeking certification according to the stringent DO178-B safety standard.

About Green Hills Software, Inc.

Incorporated in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc., is the leading supplier of software development tools for embedded applications, as reported recently in Venture Development Corporation's "The World Market for Embedded Operating Systems and Software Development Tools" June 1999 report, for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Green Hills Software offers a family of optimizing C, C++, Embedded C++, Ada 95, FORTRAN and Pascal compilers. The company's unique MULTI software development environment automates the compile-edit-build-debug cycle by integrating advanced facilities such as an RTOS-aware source-level debugger, performance profiler, program builder and version control system. Green Hills Software's tools support all major 32-bit and 64-bit advanced microprocessor families and target environments, including instruction set simulators, ROM monitors, commercial and home grown real-time operating systems (RTOS) and in-circuit emulators (ICE).

Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA., and has US offices in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Florida. International headquarters are located in the United Kingdom, with offices in France, Germany, and the Netherlands. For sales information on Green Hills Software products, please call 1-805-965-6044, email inquiries to sales@ghs.com.

OSE is a trademark of Enea OSE Systems, AB. MULTI is a registered trademark of Green Hills Software.