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In article <1120146523.470407.35000@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:

>I had the same problem a few months ago until I sicced Ron on them, and
>then they called back.
>
>Now that the evil Freescale swine are running Metrowerks, it appears as
>if no one there cares if another CodeWarrior sale ever takes place
>again.  Essentially, CodeWarrior is too low a priority for Freescale to
>have an actual breathing human to bother with: we are consigned to
>web-based sales only.  When CW was altogether removed for the x86
>technology removal, they didn't seem to be in much of a hurry to get it
>back on.
>
>Remember, Metrowerks counts as "Other" in the Freescale lineup.
>Freescale ended up with Metrowerks when separating from Motorola in the
>same way the last players picked for basketball are chosen.  Aside from
>Ron, I don't get the opinion that anyone cares anymore.  I think some
>of them are privately hoping that Xcode just kills CodeWarrior off so
>that it is one less thing for them to bother with.
>
All the decisions for Macintosh tools are made at a Metrowerks company 
level.  Metrowerks has one core group dedicated to Games Console and 
Desktop and Palm tools and they do care greatly as to what happens.  

We were over zealous in trying to not announce anything during the 
"quiet period" and that gave a false impression of our strategy.  Intel 
has a saying if you do not define yourself someone else will.  

Ron

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