🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <7q6dnekiBL9-4PXfRVn-jQ@comcast.com>,
 Michael Forster <mforster@comcast.net> wrote:


>I converted over to CodeWarrior when CW was at DR2.  I converted from 
>the Symantec product because of service (Symantec's service did not 
>exist), even though Symatec's Think C product was quite incredible at 
>the time.  However, there are several simularities between Symantec then 
>and Metrowerks now.  Gradually sell of products to other companies, 
>delay releases, introduce products and then discontinue them. 
>Metrowerks was great because they were expanding, they were innovative, 
>created things we were hard pressed to find anywhere else and above all, 
>they had the best service and responsiveness around.
>
>Now they are contracting from markets.  The handwriting is on the wall. 
>  This is a dying company.  They have ceased to innovate and create new 
>products.  They are no longer hungry.  The board of directors and 
>financial people, most likely, guide the ship the way lawyers guide 
>doctors.  They have gone down the road of so many companies before and 
>have traded a target of success for a target of no risk and abandon the 
>very people that they used to serve so well.

This is not about greed.  We are owned by a Semiconductor company that 
isn't Intel,  you are missing that part of the equation.    We sold our 
Intel x86 technology, we make compilers for Freescale chips now.

Ron

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