Metrowerks

Metrowerks was a company that developed software development tools for various embedded, game, handheld, and desktop platforms. Its flagship product, CodeWarrior, comprised an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), compilers, linkers, libraries, and related tools. Freescale, its parent company, continues to sell these tools.

Related Topics:
CodeWarrior - Integrated Development Environment - Compilers - Linkers - Libraries - Freescale

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Founded in 1986 in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Metrowerks originally developed software development tools for Macintosh computers and UNIX workstations. It had limited success with these products. In 1992, it began an effort to develop development tools for Macintosh computers based on the newly-announced PowerPC processor. It shipped the first commercial release of CodeWarrior in May 1994 at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. The release was a great success. Metrowerks received much credit for helping Apple succeed in its risky transition to a new processor.

Related Topics:
Saint-Laurent, Quebec - Macintosh - UNIX - PowerPC - Apple's - Worldwide Developers Conference

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In March 1994 Metrowerks had its initial public offering, trading under the symbol MTWK.

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Also in 1994, Metrowerks opened a small sales and R&D office in Austin, Texas to be closer to the manufacturers of the new PowerPC chips, IBM and Motorola. Metrowerks would later move its corporate headquarters to Austin.

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R&D - Austin, Texas - IBM - Motorola

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By 1996 Metrowerks had begun expanding its CodeWarrior product line to target platforms besides Macintosh computers, including PalmOS, PlayStation, and Microsoft Windows. In August 1999, Motorola's semiconductor sector acquired Metrowerks. In 2003, Motorola spun off its semiconductor sector as a separate company named Freescale. In October 2005, Freescale retired the Metrowerks name but continued developing CodeWarrior and other Metrowerks development tools in Freescale's Developer Technology Organization.

Related Topics:
PalmOS - PlayStation - Microsoft Windows

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