EXHIBIT 99.1

RadiSys Announces Hiring of New President and CEO

HILLSBORO, OR - October 7, 2002 - RadiSys Corporation (Nasdaq: RSYS), a leading
provider of embedded-computing solutions, today announced that Scott C. Grout
has joined RadiSys as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the
RadiSys Board of Directors effective October 7, 2002. Ronald A. Dilbeck, acting
President and Chief Executive Officer, will continue with the company and resume
the position of Chief Operating Officer.

For the past four years, Mr. Grout was President and Chief Executive Officer of
Chorum Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of optical components and
subsystems for networks based in Richardson, Texas. Prior to joining Chorum
Technologies, Mr. Grout was with Lucent Technologies for 14 years, where he held
a number of engineering and management positions including Vice President of the
Optical Networking Group. Mr. Grout received his BS in Engineering from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison and his MBA from the Sloan School of
Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"I am very excited about joining the RadiSys team," said Mr. Grout, age 40, who
will be moving with his wife and two children to the Portland area. "RadiSys is
a respected leader in the embedded-computing industry and is very well
positioned in the market with an enviable customer base and significant
financial strength."

RadiSys also announced that C. Scott Gibson, a member of the RadiSys Board of
Directors since 1993, was appointed Chairman of the Board. Mr. Gibson stated,
"We are all delighted to have Scott Grout as our new CEO at RadiSys. Scott
brings tremendous talent and experience to this role and has a proven track
record of successfully leading high-technology organizations and building
excellent customer relationships. We are excited about the future of RadiSys
under his leadership."

Mr. Grout will be participating in RadiSys' upcoming third quarter conference
call scheduled for Wednesday, October 16 at 2:00 p.m. PST.

RadiSys is a leading global provider of embedded hardware and software solutions
to OEM companies in the communications equipment, medical, industrial
automation, and transaction terminal markets. Using its extensive expertise in a
wide variety of technologies, RadiSys focuses on industry-leading Intel
architecture while working in a close "virtual division" relationship with its
customers, significantly improving their time-to-market advantage and reducing
cost. The broad range of RadiSys product offerings include board-level embedded
computers, network interfaces and packet processing engines; communications
middleware and software such as SS7/IP internetworking and protocol stacks;
platforms based on PCI, CompactPCI and switch fabrics; turnkey gateway systems
and professional services.

RadiSys is a registered trademark. All other products are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies.