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Santa Barbara, CA. March 4, 2002 -- Green Hills Software, Inc. today announced that it has achieved the greatest market share growth in 2001 among embedded RTOSes addressing "hard real-time requirements," according to a study released this month by Venture Development Corporation (VDC), a leading technology market research firm.

In its latest study, entitled "Embedded Software Strategic Market Intelligence Program: Volume IV," published February, 2002, VDC reports on the worldwide market for all embedded operating systems for the year 2001. According to the VDC report, the embedded operating system market is estimated to top $663.8 million in 2001 shipments. This includes shipments of embedded operating systems from Microsoft (Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE), Palm (PalmOS), VenturCom (Windows), Symbian (SymbianOS), Sun (Solaris) and several vendors of embedded Linux. It also includes shipments of hard real-time operating system (RTOS) shipments from Green Hills Software, Wind River Systems, QNX, OSE Systems, Microware, Accelerated Technologies, and Express Logic. In the hard RTOS segment, which accounted for $300 million, GHS experienced the fastest growth in market share.

"Green Hills Software gained significant market share in 2001, and emerged as a leading RTOS provider," reported Steve Balacco, Senior Research Analyst for Venture Development Corporation. "Green Hills' strategic move into the RTOS space was elevated by the recent selection of their INTEGRITY® RTOS by Lockheed Martin for use in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter."

"This latest VDC report clearly shows the success Green Hills Software has achieved in developing and deploying real-time operating systems." commented John Carbone, vice president of marketing for Green Hills Software. "With INTEGRITY and ThreadX®-based RTOS solutions dominating our business, we are now recognized as a total solutions provider for embedded development."

A full picture of RTOS Market Share Growth for 2001 is attached, showing all companies included in the "hard real-time" subset who showed growth. Data for Microsoft's Windows CE3.0, which claims 30-50 microsecond response capability, was not broken out in the VDC report, and so is included among Microsoft's total embedded OS numbers in the "non-hard-real-time" category.

Previous VDC reports in 1998 and 2000 showed Green Hills as the #1 independent development tools provider. Now, Green Hills has emerged as the #3 hard RTOS supplier, and #1 among commercial RTOS suppliers in market share growth for 2001.

"GHS has now moved ahead of OSE, and trails only Wind River Systems and QNX in the hard RTOS market," Carbone commented. "This reflects the rapid acceptance of our INTEGRITY RTOS among defense and telecom equipment manufacturers. We anticipate continued growth this year and look forward to moving up at least another notch in the rankings in next year's report."

Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY real-time operating system is an advanced, secure, high-performance, royalty-free RTOS intended for applications demanding the highest security and reliability. Green Hills also supplies the compact, efficient, royalty-free ThreadX RTOS, which is ideal for applications that demand the smallest, fastest RTOS possible. Both RTOS products are supported by the MULTI® and AdaMULTI (INTEGRITY-only) Integrated Development Environment, which features the industry's most advanced C/C++/Ada95 compilers and RTOS-specific development support such as run-mode debugging and a real-time event analyzer (EventAnalyzer™).

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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. Green Hills Software's royalty-free INTEGRITY®, INTEGRITY®-178B and ThreadX® real-time operating systems, fully integrated with its market leading compilers and MULTI®/AdaMULTI® Integrated Development Environment, provide a total development and run-time solution that addresses both deeply embedded and maximum reliability applications.

Green Hills Software is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA, with European headquarters in the United Kingdom. For more information on Green Hills Software products, call 805-965-6044, email sales@ghs.com or visit us on the web at www.ghs.com.

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