On 06/01/2007, at 1:35 AM, Norman Palardy wrote:
On Jan 05, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
Metrowerks - Even if they wanted to, very little money and Apple
coming with
a free development tool (ie the platform they support is their worst
competitor).
MW did very well, they just happened to exit the Mac game recently
They had numerous products for all kinds of development all based
on their core IDE and intermediate code generation
Yes, but they struggled to make payroll for quite a while and may
have gone under if Motorola hadn't bought them, according to some
histories I've read from ex-MW staff.
Eclipse and XCode would have finished them off eventually.
Sheer compiler excellence and Apple's refusal to support anything
other than Mach-O kept them going for a couple of years, IMHO.
Andy Dent BSc MACS http://www.oofile.com.au/
OOFILE - Database, Reports, Graphs, GUI for c++ on multiple platforms
REALbasic, Python, Mac and Windows development and porting
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