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).