Watcom
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Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 from the research of the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Watcom produced a variety of tools, including the well-known Watcom C compiler introduced in 1988.
In 1992, Watcom began a move into the client-server arena with the introduction of Watcom SQL, a SQL database server product. Being very small company (about 8 developers) they managed to produce high quality software, famous among software developers.
Watcom was acquired by Powersoft in 1994, and Powersoft merged with Sybase in 1995. In May 2000, Sybase spun off their mobile and embedded computing division into its own company, iAnywhere Solutions.
Sybase tried to re-target Watcom compiler into visual RAD tool, Optima++, but the product failed at the market. In 2003, the Watcom C/C++ compiler was released as open source project under a new name, OpenWatcom.
External link
- iAnywhere Solutions website (http://www.ianywhere.com/company/milestones.html)
- OpenWatcom project website (http://www.openwatcom.com/)