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Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse

Posted by simoniker on from the puns-aplenty dept.

ilovestuff writes "According to ZDNet, Sun Microsystems has decided not to join the Eclipse open-source tools effort backed by rival IBM. In addition to dropping the plan to join Eclipse, Sun said Wednesday that it will no longer try to merge the Sun-sponsored NetBeans.org open-source Java tools project with Eclipse. The Eclipse open-source project, founded by IBM in 2001, is an IBM-owned consortium which has gained the membership of several development tools companies over the past year."

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  1. Title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let me just say that, at first glance, that title confused me terribly. I mean, I didn't know that the sun had say in such matters, and an eclipse certainly wouldn't happen without it.

  2. In other news... by Alphanos · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo have decided they will not merge. Strangely, the same choice has been made regarding the (im)possible merger of NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. Weird decisions, eh:)?

    --
    Alphanos
  3. Should have been under: Science - Astronomy by Domini · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps Sun has a problem with the name ' Eclipse', fearing they may lose out?

    -grin-

  4. It's understandable, really... by Lendrick · · Score: 2, Funny

    If your company is named Sun, joining something called Eclipse can't possibly be good for you.