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Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday December 3, 2003 @07:36PM 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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Real reason by jsse · 2003-12-03 20:06 · Score: 4, Interesting

Can be found in the last paragraph of the article:

Apart from the technical differences between Eclipse and NetBeans, Sun had some concerns that Eclipse was dominated by IBM, Green said. In September, Eclipse set out to restructure its membership model to gain independence from IBM and established a board.