Metrowerks

[Mark Wieder]

Dan-

Monday, April 3, 2006, 9:07:40 PM, you wrote:

> Which in turn has a lot to do with the emergence of Apple's own reputedly
> excellent development tools. And so it goes.

I must have missed a product announcement. Does xcode support OS9 now?

Part of Metrowerks' demise IMO was directly the result of
concentrating on their Windows product and attempting to branch out
into Palm and embedded platforms, to the detriment of both Mac
products. This preceded the appearance of Apple's post-mpw tools. The
Windows compiler never really gained that much market share, in spite
of being a much better product than MSVC, and work on the mac
compilers languished. This left not just the opening for Apple to
bring in their own compilers, but the need to do so. MW finally sold
off the Windows end of the business and folded the rest into the
Freescale operation, who as far as I can tell, seem to want it to die
a natural death.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net