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IBM Launches Public Domain Project "Eclipse"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what-exactly-is-this-anyway? dept.

ccf writes "NY Times is carrying an article about how IBM is launching a new developer organization (Free Reg blah blah blah) called Eclipse, for open source development. The article is not rich in details; it says the stuff will be in the "public domain" but makes no mention of specific licenses." If anyone can find some links that make more sense about what this actually is, please post them.

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  1. Trying to be Cool by JohnHegarty · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That sounds like IBM trying to be "cool". They heard all the kids are doing this open source thing , let join it.

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  2. How is this different than Sourcefourge? by Marillion · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How is this different than SourceForge?
    Don't get me wrong, I think the more the 800 pound Big Blue gorillia throws its weight the right way is a good thing, but it seems to me to be duplicating effort of SourceForge.

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  3. Thanks, but whatever by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    It looks like IBM is simply rolling out a lot of Java code that failed to gain any traction in the marketplace.

    Yes, Java is useable, yes it is improving. But the client apps are butt-ugly, still too slow, and the setup is still kludgey for most.

    IBM is probably figuring out that despite millions of dollars in marketing, and a semi-united front promoting the technology, Java is just a dog.

  4. ho hum by andy_from_nc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So IBM has decided to take a page from Sun and release its inferior IDE opensource and get otehr people to help them develop it. It still won't change how BAD their IDE is. I've not yet tried WSS but Visual Age (which it's taken from) is a smalltalk IDE ported to work with java and it probably was really great when it was written. Now adays its just annoying and lacks real version control system support and forces you to use a shared (meaning as in SMB windows share) repository that is simply no way to manage source. No real merge capability, no locking (if you're into locking instead of merging) no idea who's got it....its a mess. I don't see how this is news and all the great things that have happened with NetBeans isn't. Slashdot seems to have a very pro-IBM slant these days. (watch that Karma roll back to zero, but its TRUE). NB 3.3 is in beta 2 and is VM independant. Not only that it doesn't try to force you into Sun's tools in some sort of vertical scheme unlike everything IBM has release for java to date.

    -Andy