EXHIBIT 99.1

      Dr. Glen Myers steps down as CEO and Chairman of RadiSys Corporation
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Hillsboro, Oregon - May 3, 2002 - RadiSys Corporation (Nasdaq: RSYS) announced
today that Dr. Glen Myers has stepped down as President, CEO and Chairman of the
Board of the company. Dr. Myers will continue as a director of the company and
will chair the newly created Technology Committee of the Board of Directors. The
Board of Directors will initiate a search for a new President and CEO.

Carl Neun, a current board member and the former CFO of Tektronix, Inc. has been
appointed acting Chairman of the Board. "We appreciate the vision and leadership
that Glen has provided in growing RadiSys into the successful company it has
become." stated Mr. Neun. "Glen is a co-founder of the company and we are
pleased he will continue to participate as a board member, as well as provide
advice and counsel as a consultant to the management team."

Ron Dilbeck, currently the Senior Vice President of RadiSys' telecommunications
division, and an officer of the company since 1996, has been named interim
President and CEO. Ron has previously functioned as Vice President and General
Manager of a variety of product divisions and as the company's Chief Operating
Officer responsible for all product divisions, operations and sales. Prior to
joining RadiSys, Mr. Dilbeck held a variety of executive roles with other
companies, including President and CEO of nCUBE from 1994 to 1996.

"RadiSys has a strong, cohesive management team, an enviable customer base,
talented and committed employees and leading technologies needed to move us
forward. I look forward to leading the company through this transition and to my
continued involvement with RadiSys." stated Mr. Dilbeck.

 Dr. Myers co-founded RadiSys as a supplier of embedded computing solutions for
high-tech equipment in 1987. Radisys posted revenues of $228 million in 2001 and
has become the leading provider to OEMs for a span of products ranging from
board-level components such as processors, network interfaces, and packet
processing engines, to communications middleware software such as signaling and
networking protocol stacks, to platforms based on PCI, CompactPCI, and
switch-fabrics, to services such as NEBS certification and software and
microcode professional services, all the way up to private-label gateway
systems. "I have complete confidence in Ron and the rest of the management team
and look forward to contributing to the future success of RadiSys in my new
role." stated Dr. Myers.