"Wind River Systems Inc. is a software company that has never lived up to its potential. But some investors are betting that the company, started in a Berkeley, Calif., garage 23 years ago, has found the kind of leader it has long needed: an experienced outsider willing to revamp the company's strategy.
"The Alameda, Calif., company hired Kenneth Klein as its chairman and chief executive in January--ending a search that began in June 2003. Klein had spent a dozen years at Mercury Interactive Corp. and served as its chief operating officer since 2000..."