Re: Last word on CW 10 before this group is dead

On 2006-03-11 16:26:19 -0800, "Jonathan Hoyle" <jonhoyle@xxxxxxx> said:

I wrote a review for it which you can find at:

http://www.maccompanion.com/archives/december2005/Software/Metrowerks.htm

Why did you give it 4 of 5 stars? Just curious.

From the review:

"Due to extraordinary shortsightedness on the part of Freescale, Metrowerks' parent company, CodeWarrior has gone from dominant marketshare to product cancellation in only two short years".

This was the inevitable outcome from decisions by one person, CEO Jim Welch. Jim hated Macintosh for the day he joined the company even though it paid his inflated salary.

He single handedly drove the Apple and MW partnership apart when he was CFO and hammered the final nail into the coffin as CEO.

Through firings, budget cuts and other means, he drove MW's Mac developers away and threw a commanding marketshare lead to the wind to satisfy his own ego. When MW finally hit rock bottom, he left MW for another company (Wireless Valley) which is now part of Motorola. See the pattern? MW management incompentent in every way except one: it brilliantly executes mergers after bloating and fasting the company before financial ruin making it an attractive bargain to prospective buyers. Fiscal responsibility, growth and revenue are a secondary concern and the customers/employees suffer as a result.

Before MW, Jim worked at Coopers & Lybrand as an accountant. Motorola literally put the bean counters in charge and it destroyed the company. David Perkins was head bean counter before Jim. A cautionary tale on hiring practices. Galanos and Belanger's #1 mistake (perhaps only mistake) was hiring those guys.

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