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Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse

Posted by Zonk on from the now-available-for-poking dept.

ricochet81 writes "The Register is reporting that Borland has released the base version of JBuilder as open source on Eclipse! Is this just the next company to use open source as part of a marketing tool, akin to Sun, IBM and Oracle's opensource IDE push? Is the future of enterprise IDE open?"

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  1. Delphi too, please by Aggrajag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just opensource Delphi as well. I just love Pascal as a programming language.

  2. Open? I sure hope so.... by ZephyrXero · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think the future of all software is going to be more and more open ;) Companies are starting to learn that most components of their programs can be released in a free/open-source format (especially the file format) and then you can sell a more complex version with the real things that give your product value added on top of that.

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  3. Too earlt to tell by jvv62 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seems to me the article doesn't really say anything. Thus it is too early to have a decent discussion of what Borland is doing. On the other hand it is nice to see an OSS product making headway against a proprietary product. I liked JBuilder, and I think there are some features to Jbuilder that would be nice additions to Eclipse. Also the GUI seemed a little more solid in JBuilder than in Eclipse.

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  4. Is the future of enterprise IDE open? by woah · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really, given that Microsoft would never do this with Visual Studio.

  5. Borland is realizing what IBM did by thammoud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    years ago. There is no money to be made in stock IDE's. Building value added plugins for a popular IDE (Eclipse) and people might pay more money. The Java platform is in a wonderful position with all the free (and superb) IDE's available. Eclipse and Netbeans are both excellent IDE's that other platforms can only dream off.

    My prediction is that IDEA's IntelliJ will also go open source. The gap between it and the above mentioned IDE's is very narrow to warrant spending the dough.

  6. Re:What do you want to open source today? by rebug · · Score: 4, Insightful

    To most people, Windows already is free. It's a non-optional compoent of their new Dell, not an add on. Non-geeks never upgrade their OS, so Windows' cost is never an issue.

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  7. Java by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I think you see this more with some languages than others. Interpreted and VM languages, like Java, Perl, and Python, have a tendency to be extremely open. I believe this stems at least partly from the difficulty of concealing the sources of such languages -- even when compiled to a byte code of some kind, applications written in them still tend to be quite easy to disassemble. Compare that to C++, which is difficult to disassemble; it's much easier to conceal source.

    As a result, languages like Perl, Python, and Java have a strong tradition of OSS licensing, and C/C++ less so.

    That's just my impression of the industry though from my own interaction with the Python, C++, and Java communities; don't take this as some attempt to be the moses of language-politics. :)

  8. Re:Irritatingness by Textbook+Error · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The software was so completely irritating and impossible to use that I decided it was more than my university career was worth and dropped out of university with nothing at the end of first year

    Here's an alternative explanation. You're a bit of a dumbass, and decided to bail from a privilege that most of humanity never gets a chance to experience (higher education).

    Anyone who decides to give up that opportunity because of a flaky IDE is a dipshit. Sorry to have to be the one to break it to you.

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    Nae bother