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LinuxWorld: First commercial ‘mainstream development tools’ for Red Hat

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 3, 1999

“Metrowerks Inc… began shipping the first release of their
CodeWarrior software development tools for Linux on Friday. The
port to Red Hat Linux was made after Metrowerks reached an
agreement with Red Hat Software late last month.

“Metrowerks’s CodeWarrior is “the first widely used,
commercially available Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to
be ported to Red Hat Linux,” the company said…”

“… The companies said that their cooperation is a direct
response to demands from the developer community for mainstream,
commercial software development tools for Linux…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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