Metrowerks Corporation is engaged in the research, design, development, marketing, and support of computer software development tools. Its principal product line, Metrowerks® CodeWarrior®, consisted of a suite of programming tools that was used to develop software in the C, C++, Java™, Pascal, and low-level programming languages. The company’s products were used primarily by professional software programmers and programmers in the academic community to develop applications software for platforms using a variety of operating systems, including desktop operating systems, such as Windows 95/98/NT, Mac® OS, and Linux; and commercial off-the-shelf embedded operating systems, such as VxWorks, QNX, Nucleus OS™, and Windows CE. The company was founded in 1990. As of October 25, 1999, Metrowerks Corporation, was a subsidiary of Motorola Inc. Metrowerks Corporation now operates as a subsidiary of Freescale Semiconductor Inc.