Re: CodeWarrior for Windows Discontinued?

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From: jonhoyle
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:27

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>>This also affected our Mac Hosted x86 cross compilers and we are not
licensing the x86 tools any more.

I would think that continuing to license the x86 cross-compiler (even
if it were for an extra cost) would help sell more of the Mac version.
As long as the licensing fees you pay are passed along, what harm is
there?  I'm confident that the majority of the Windows tools users are
on the Mac anyway, so this decision will affect the Mac market more
than the Windows market.

I don't think Metrowerks has thought a lot of this through, since many
of the people who have chosen to stay with CodeWarrior are doing so
because they know they can cross-compile.  Dropping this ability makes
the switch to Xcode much more compelling.

Here's hoping that someone at Metrowerks does some actual customer
analysis before going ahead with this decision.  It sounds like
FreeScale is just knee-jerking "We don't do well in the Windows market,
so we'll drop the x86 compiler on every platform" without taking into
account the value of the x86 compiler in the Mac market.

Jonathan Hoyle

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