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Article #451Re: CodeWarrior & Xcode Marketshare
From: Gregory L. Hansen
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 21:04
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. -- "The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability." -- Gumperson's Law
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X-Google-Thread: f635e,528c2eda82e10d24 X-Google-Thread: 10bcce,528c2eda82e10d24 X-Google-Thread: f98ee,528c2eda82e10d24 X-Google-Attributes: gidf635e,gid10bcce,gidf98ee,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,codewarrior.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools Subject: Re: CodeWarrior & Xcode Marketshare Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 28 Message-ID: <d5oj81$8f0$3@rainier.uits.indiana.edu> References: <1115654846.172288.230850@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <haberg-0905052034270001@c83-250-195-154.bredband.comhem.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: steel09.uits.indiana.edu X-Trace: rainier.uits.indiana.edu 1115672641 8672 129.79.6.216 (9 May 2005 21:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-admin@indiana.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 21:04:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test62 (21 February 1998)