"Open Watcom is a project of the open source community to maintain and enhance the Watcom C, C++, and Fortran cross compilers and tools. An Open Source license from Sybase allows free commercial and non-commercial use of Open Watcom. More about Open Watcom's features. Details about Open Watcom's history. Work in progress includes Linux and FreeBSD ports, support for new processors, support for new language features and standards, a C++ STL implementation and more."
http://openwatcom.org/index.php/Main_Page#Open_Watcom_1.8_RC4_.28February_2009.29
Open Watcom 1.8 RC4 (February 2009)
The fourth release candidate of the next version of Open Watcom is ready for evaluation by the user community. It can be downloaded from the same places as the official 1.7a release. See the list of release changes for information about how 1.8 differs from the previous release.
Download: http://openwatcom.org/index.php/Download
Change list: http://openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes
From: Mark Dodel
Source: OS2VOICE.org