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Sun Drops Bid To Join Eclipse
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."
I'm fed up with Sun. This company appears to be run by manic depressive children. In my opinion, the long term behavior of Sun can be paraphrased as "unprofessional and stupid." These people are consistently misdirecting themselves and others with their half-assed behavior.
On Java; How many more decades will Sun need before they figure out that attempting to collect license fees from Microsoft for Java is not a viable business model. Computer languages are not profitable because the market generally knows better than to invest in proprietary languages. Java should have been submitted to a public standards process long, long ago. Whatever technical justification that may have existed for not doing so is now moot. The market won't allow Sun to diverge Java significantly and, indeed, is already well ahead of Sun on many fronts (but limited by Suns ignorant selfishness, as if there might still be a big pot of gold out there, somewhere...)
On Linux; The on-again off-again love/hate nonsense with Linux is now simply understood. We take it for granted that Sun is ambiguous at best, and hostile at worst, towards Linux. Why? What is so special about Sun that this silly shit is tolerated?
And now, on Eclipse; Just another example of how not to behave. Why do they do this? Eclipse doesn't need Sun. If they don't know what their direction should be why do their open their mouths? Who or what is running the show at Sun? Why do they even care about Eclipse? They can't sell it! An inspired thinker might have realized that there is a vigorous and growing market for Eclipse plug-ins that Sun could sell (J2EE etc.,) but it's clear to me that this sort of adaptation and inspiration is well beyond anything you might accuse of Sun.
Die, Sun, die. Your hardware, software and business model are all obsolete outside shrinking niche markets. You have no clue about how to fix the problem and, in the meantime, you mess things up trying to beat a golden egg out of other people's gooses. Just another legacy UNIX vendor that is taking longer to die than most because they started later.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Maybe it doesn't run on an Apollo workstation running CDE (and Swing/JVM does), but who cares?