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MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote in message news:<mwron-0D4426.11381014042005@news.newsguy.com>...
> In article <1113433284.421988.181740@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>  "jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> Metrowerks has discontinued the sale and development of its Intel x86 
> compilers.  This technology is used in Symbian development and was 
> acquired by Nokia last year.   
> 
> Metrowerks will continue to provide online support for Windows on our 
> CodeWarrior Community Forum and USENET newsgroups and will continue to 
> take bug reports submitted to support@metrowerks.com. 
> 
> If you already have a license to use CodeWarrior for Windows this does 
> not affect your license to use those tools.
> 
> This also affected our Mac Hosted x86 cross compilers and we are not 
> licensing the x86 tools any more.  
> 
> We are currently looking at our options but I don't see any great desire 
> to be in the Windows market. 

Oh, really?  Last year the official lie for not shipping an academic
version of CW 9 for many month was that having both Windows and Mac
tools was most important for your academic users.  So I see how
important it was as it either backfired and you lost the last academic
Windows users with that policy, or  Metrowerks simply does not care
about the academic users on the Mac at all and you never had many
academic users who cared for the Windows version, which would make the
imaginary Windows users just a poor excuse for treating Mac academic
users badly.  I wonder what the excuse will be when CW 10 comes out
(if it ever does) for not having an academic version instantly. Maybe
it will be rain in Texas or something else holding up the academic
version trucks.

If I had to bet US$1000 on Metrowerks (or Freescale or whoever owns
you right now) dropping the Mac tools from one day to the next within
the next two years versus Metrowerks continuing development of them, I
would bet on the former. A good way to treat customers, really.  Just
silently drop products from one day to the next, that certainly makes
everybody confident in your company!

I know you are just the messenger, but if I were you, I would start
looking for a new job ... looks like next week Metrowerks could just
close down - your head management's decisions have been so random in
the past two years, for me this would hardly be a surprise!

    Thorsten