Right, I now there's another thread on this topic a few days old, but that whole discussion ended up in the usual boring religious battle between open source and commercial tools. (If you want to have my $0.02 on that subject, I think Coca Cola should publish their recipe and Boing should publish their blueprints and it would be much safer if I could build my own jet and test it myself... just joking, folks...)
But seriously, ARM bying Keil is serious news. Anyone remembering Rational Software? That was the company that was going to make a revoultion within the embedded field and having us all go back to evening schools for UML classes. They were bought by IBM and never heard of since. Anyone hooked on Metrowerks? Bad luck - they are now hidden deep inside Motorola/Freescale. And now Keil and ARM. What does it mean? I encourage us all to take five and leave the bitfields rest for a while. What do you uvision users make of this? What are ARM's motives? What will become of Keil and their products? I have my theories, but I don't want to be too blunt about it...
Charlie