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Re: CodeWarrior & Xcode Marketshare

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From: Gregory L. Hansen
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:04
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In article <haberg-0905052034270001@c83-250-195-154.bredband.comhem.se>,
Hans Aberg <haberg@math.su.se> wrote:
>In article <1115654846.172288.230850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>"jonhoyle@mac.com" <jonhoyle@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there any figures on the current marketshare of Macintosh
>> development tools, specificly Xcode & CodeWarrior?  Only a few years
>> ago, Metrowerks CodeWarrior held a near monopoly on C++ tools, with
>> ProjectBuilder in the fractional minority.  However, with Metrowerks
>> shooting themselves in the foot these past two years, it's my
>> understanding that CodeWarrior has dramaticly fallen and Xcode becoming
>> the more popular choice.  Is there any data on this to either
>> substantiate or refute this impression?
>
>Metrowerks is (I think) a Motorola company, and I figure their CodeWarrior
>compilers were a part in the effort of promoting Motorola CPU's. On the
>Mac, this is G4 and earlier. The G5 I think is developed by Apple and IBM,
>so there is no Motorola interest in promoting that anymore. In addtion,
>with Mac OS X using GCC, which is one of the most compliant C++ compilers
>around, it will become tough for Metrowerks to upper that, especially as
>the Mac OS X developer tools are for free.

I just stopped by www.sec.gov.  Has Metrowerks filed an annual report in 
the last six years?  I couldn't find one.

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Subject: Re: CodeWarrior & Xcode Marketshare
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