Corporate Profile for Metrowerks, dated Feb. 23, 2001.Business Editors --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Feb. 23, 2001
Company Name: Metrowerks
Address: 9801 Metric Blvd.
Austin, Texas 78758
Main Telephone
Number: 512/997-4700
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.metrowerks.com
Chief Executive
Officer: David Perkins
Chief Financial
Officer: Jim Welch
Public Relations
Contact: Jeff Tieszen
Business number: 512/997-4717
E-mail address: jtieszen@metrowerks.com
Industry: Software development tools
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: NYSE:MOT
Company Description: Metrowerks designs, develops, markets and supports professional hardware and software development tools used to create software applications for a variety of industries including telecom, desktop, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and consumer electronics. The company was founded in 1985 in Montreal, Canada and moved the corporate headquarters to Austin, Texas ten years later. Metrowerks became an independently operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock. of Motorola in September of 1999. Metrowerks' flagship technology is the CodeWarrior Integrated Development. Metrowerks develops and sells its development tools in five major market segments: the desktop Windows(R) and Macintosh market, the Linux OS market, the embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. proprietary operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. market, the real-time operating systems (operating system) Real-Time Operating System - (RTOS) Any operating system where interrupts are guaranteed to be handled within a certain specified maximum time, thereby making it suitable for control of hardware in embedded systems and other time-critical applications. (RTOS (1) (RealTime Operating System) An operating system designed for use in a real time computer system. See real time system, embedded system, process control and OS-9. ) market and the Java technology market. CodeWarrior tools also support game title development on all three of the major games console vendors -- Sony, Sega and Nintendo -- and applications development for the Palm handheld computing device. CodeWarrior's cross-platform compilers support C, C++, Java and assembly programming languages and allow programmers to build applications from one unique integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE). Metrowerks also offers free online programming courses on its CodeWarriorU.com site (www.CodeWarriorU.com), now the world's largest resource for free online programming courses. For more information, please visit the Metrowerks Web site at www.metrowerks.com. |
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