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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?"

4 of 243 comments (clear)

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

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

  2. 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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    -John Van Voorhis
  3. Is the future of enterprise IDE open? by woah · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

  4. 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