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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. 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-