the Open Watcom is a joint effort between SciTech Software, Sybase®, and a select team of developers, which will bring the Sybase Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compiler products to the Open Source community.
includes the command line versions of the optimizing C++ compiler, linker, and static libraries (including the Standard C++ Library) that ships with the commercial Visual Studio .NET Professional 2003.
Compatible with the tools developers use, Intel compilers plug into popular development environments and feature source and binary compatibility with widely-used compilers.