“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…”