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SANTA BARBARA, CA —September 1, 2004 — Green Hills Software, Inc., the market leader in embedded software development tools and royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), announced today the election of Avadis “Avie” Tevanian, Jr., Ph.D., to its board of directors.

“Avie is a great addition to the Green Hills Software board,” said Dan O’Dowd, Green Hills Software’s founder and chief executive officer. “He has been a pioneer in operating system development with a proven ability to turn innovative technology into a commercial success. His insight will add greatly to the talent on our board.”

Tevanian, senior vice president and chief software technology officer for Apple Computer, has spent his entire career in software development, much of which involved computer operating systems. In his current role, Tevanian focuses on setting Apple’s company-wide software technology direction. He joined Apple in 1997 as senior vice president of Software Engineering and was named to his current position in July 2003.

Prior to serving at Apple, Tevanian was vice president of Engineering at NeXT Computer, which he joined in 1988 as a software engineer. Tevanian holds a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester.


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Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software, Inc. is the technology leader for real-time operating systems and software development tools for 32- and 64-bit embedded systems. Our royalty-free INTEGRITY RTOS, velOSity microkernel, compilers, MULTI and AdaMULTI Integrated Development Environments and TimeMachine debugger, offer a complete development solution that addresses both deeply embedded and high-reliability applications. Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. Visit Green Hills Software on the web at www.ghs.com.

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