Who is Wind River?

I like these little stories. It makes my time in office much more amusing and easy to pass. Of course, all these are true accounts.

There is this FW manager in our department. He's not the same as I previously blogged about a week ago. He came to speak to my team's FW engineers.

FW Manager (FWM) : Do you use an OS in your product.
FW Engineer (FWE) : Yep.
FWM : Who wrote the OS?
FWE : Umm...Wind River.
FWM : Is that a group here in [our company]?
FWE : Uh...no...They're another company.
FWM : How do you download your program into your CPU?

At this point, a lot of mental forehead slapping was going on with the engineers. Disbelief was abound with the engineers that this guy actually made it to manager. A manager in charge of a FW group no less...