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OnCore Systems Appoints Chuck Colford to GM Post Communications Executive to Drive Business Growth Half Moon Bay, California, January 9, 2002 - - OnCore Systems Corporation, makers of the first real-time, hardware-protected embedded operating systems based upon fully independent address spaces, today appointed Chuck Colford, a seasoned leader to the newly created post of General Manager. Colford brings more than 20 years of team building, engineering and executive management expertise to OnCore Systems. Colford will be based out of the company's recently announced Ottawa Design Center located in Ottawa, Canada (see www.oncoresystems.com/pr/pr_2001_09_05_Ottawa.htm) "With two decades of business experience with embedded systems for both large corporate and pre-IPO sized firms, Colford brings a wealth of proven, results-oriented experience to the company", stated Chip Downing, President and CEO for OnCore Systems. "Chuck has directly owned revenue ramps exceeding $150M. His proven track record of successful product development experience will help drive OnCore's product growth and deployment of next generation embedded operating systems architectures." Prior to joining OnCore Systems, Colford held a variety of leadership positions in business, product and organizational development roles at Nortel Networks - a globally recognized telecommunications equipment provider. Most recently, Colford was responsible for delivering the end-to-end business results for 2.5Gbps portfolio products as part of the Nortel Passport 15000 Multi-Service Data Carrier Grade product family. With a proven track record of on-time, on-budget delivery, his team grew their revenues beyond targets in a down economy and moved the product to become #1 in it's market segment. Additional accomplishments included leadership and delivery of the Spectrum OC-3 product line. This product line has ultimately gone on to become a multi-billion dollar success in the marketplace. Colford graduated with honors from the University of New Brunswick and holds a B.Sc.E in Electrical Engineering. Downloadable Image A picture of Chuck Colford can be downloaded at: http://www.oncoresystems.com/ pix/Chuck_Colford_OnCore.JPG About OnCore Systems OnCore Systems Corporation provides hard real-time, highly resilient operating systems for mission-critical applications running on embedded designs powered by microprocessors from AMD, ARM, IBM, Intel, MIPS, Motorola, Siroyan and ZF Micro Devices. Additionally, OnCore provides a range of embedded Linux solutions that deliver predictable, single-digit microsecond response times to real-time events in a fully protected environment, while enabling the simultaneous mix of Linux and RTOS applications. OnCore Systems also provides high availability solutions, software development tools and services to assist customers in meeting critical time-to-market demands. OnCore Systems (http://www.OnCoreSystems.com), headquartered in Half Moon Bay, California, was founded in early 1999. Media Contact: Phil Parker, VP of Marketing, OnCore Systems: Phone: +1 781-334-0060, Email: PParker@OnCoreSystems.com OnCore Contact Information: Europe (UK): +44 (0) 1942 819581 International: +1 650-465-2222 Western US: +1 650-465-2119 Eastern US: +1 860-648-0681 Email: Info@OnCoreSystems.com For a "Real-Time", use protected from OnCore Systems (www.OnCoreSystems.com).