:PRNewswire: Sybase to Open Source Watcom C/C++ and Fortran Compilers
PRNewswire: Sybase to Open Source Watcom C/C++ and Fortran Compilers Aug 22, 2000, 23 :09 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (6885 reads)
"Sybase, Inc. today announced that it plans to release the source code for the
Sybase Watcom C/C++ and Watcom Fortran compilers under an Open Source license agreement. This move is designed to allow existing
customers to continue to evolve the Watcom compiler products for their own use."
"We've had tremendous interest from our customers in Open Source versions of our Watcom compiler products," said Rob Veitch, director of Business
Development, Sybase, Inc. "Sybase feels that leveraging the tremendous talent pool in the Open Source community is the best way to enable
customers to continue to support and evolve these products into the future."
"Sybase has selected SciTech Software, Inc. as the official maintainer of the Watcom compiler source code, which is planned to be released under the
"Open Watcom" moniker. SciTech was selected due to its heavy use of Watcom products, its extensive cross platform experience and its record of
Open Source involvement; SciTech released its commercial SciTech MGL graphics library to the Open Source community in 1997. Among its duties as
official maintainer, SciTech will manage the Open Watcom web site (http://www.openwatcom.org), which will host the project source code, bug tracking
database, developer discussion groups, and official binaries for free download. SciTech will also be heavily involved in the continued development of
Open Watcom products."
