[ Thanks to Rajiv
for this link. ]
“Motorola Inc.’s Motorola’s Semiconductor Products Sector said
today that it will offer to acquire all of the outstanding common
shares of Austin-based software tools developer Metrowerks
Inc.”
“In a cash bid of $6.25 per share, the deal would be worth about
$95 million. The Metrowerks board of directors unanimously approved
the proposed sale to Motorola.”
“Motorola SPS wants to make Metrowerks a core component of its
software tools for developing DigitalDNA embedded solutions.
Metrowerks’ flagship product line, CodeWarrior, is a suite of
programming tools to create software in the C, C++, Java and
assembly programming languages.”
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