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Motorola to purchase Metrowerks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bigger-fish-littler-fish dept.

chigs writes to us with the news that Motorola, chip maker extraordinaire, is planning to purchase Metrowerks, creators of CodeWarrior. Hopefully this will not effect Metrowerks expansion into the Linux-area, but Motorola said it plans to leave Metrowerks as a stand-alone company.

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  1. pilot tools by mattdm · · Score: 2
    The command-line pilot-link tools work great for me.

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  2. Re:CodeWarrior works only on RedHat by ry4an · · Score: 2

    Actually CodeWarrior works just fine w/ non-Redhat linuxes. Metrowerks's marketing folk just didn't think that the world could handle a long string of requirements for running (ex: Libc2.1, etc.), so they just said Redhat.

    As for Debian not running commercial software, what are you smoking? Debian doesn't come with any commercial software, but you can certainly run it on Debian.

  3. Uh huh. by Booker · · Score: 2

    Bah. Go get back to work on Bob 2.0

  4. I'm not sure if I understand the logic behind this by daviddennis · · Score: 2

    What's the point?

    Is this to distract stockholders from the Iridium disaster?

    D

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  5. Try kdevelop by daywalker · · Score: 2

    People should try out kdevelop at www.kdevelop.org. It is still beta but shows much promise for thouse who want a VC++ type of IDE.

  6. Re:CodeWarrior works only on RedHat by jsfetzik · · Score: 2

    >At least when you see a box and it says requires
    >Windows you know it'll work if you have Windows.

    Actually if all it says is 'Windows' you can't be sure which version it will run under, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, NT3, NT3.5, NT4, 2000. Now usually it will run under the latest consumer, 9X, version of windows.

    A lot of stuff will not run under NT/2000 that will run in 3.X and 9X. Particularly in the consumer market.

    There is also stuff that will run only on NT/2000.

    Thus you still need to list multiple versions of Windows if it runs on more then one version.