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Mac Warriors,

The quiet period around our parent company's IPO (Freescale 
Semiconductor - FSL) is over and we're going start making product 
delivery announcements for the Macintosh market in September but I 
wanted to let you in on what we've been doing. Some of the plans are not 
yet confirmed and I don�t want to have our plans appear as promises, 
yet. As these items become more fleshed out we will be making formal 
announcements that will include specific details and dates.

First, I'm personally very excited that Metrowerks� partnership with the 
Mac Developers community will continue. We will continue providing bug 
fixes and patches to CodeWarrior Development Studio, v9.x as necessary 
(we recently released v9.3 patch, available via our web site now).

Secondly, I can say that we are planning a CodeWarrior Pro 9 optimizing 
compiler and build chain for 64-bit support that allows you to build 
optimized G5 applications with the build speeds you expect from 
CodeWarrior. We are aiming at a beta version of these tools being seeded 
by end of this year, but that is not a committed deadline yet. More on 
this build chain will be announced this September. You will need to be a 
CodeWarrior Pro 9 customer to get this functionality and it will 
complement (not replace) the existing compilers so that we don't affect 
on-going or archived projects. 

Finally, let me assure you that providing the finest optimizing 
compilers and tools available for Mac OS X remains a focus for 
Metrowerks. To that end, in addition to G5 support, we are planning that 
a NEW CodeWarrior for Mac OS will be available in 2005. This new 
CodeWarrior will include a text based project format and will utilize 
more OS X features.

You may ask why is it going to take so long, the answer is that we are 
addressing some of the long standing customer requests and increasing 
our emphasis on product quality. We believe our timing is right, Apple 
is not releasing a new operating system until 2005 so we have the time 
now to build a new product and not simply a repackaged IDE. It will be 
worth the wait. Look for more details in September.

Ron

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 Ron Liechty - MWRon@metrowerks.com - http://www.metrowerks.com