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Business Objects to Join Eclipse Foundation

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the getting-to-be-a-big-bandwagon dept.

daria42 writes "Business intelligence specialist Business Objects is the latest software maker to join the Eclipse Foundation, and says it will move several products onto the open source platform -- but it's not yet saying which. 'We won't fight it, we'll embrace it,' said one of the company's executives in Sydney last week, talking about the open source software model. 'One of the reasons we've chosen to go with the Eclipse platform, rather than any of the other open source types,' she said, 'is that [Eclipse] actually has a model where vendors can sell value-added products into it, but still provide the service components.'"

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  1. Interesting, considering... by kat11v · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Interesting considering that right now they are currently hiring/hired three new patent agents (my friend in Vancouver being one of them).

    Then again maybe it's just my slightly paranoid conscience jumping to silly conclusions.

  2. Re:Eclipse Is The Most Import Software Product by G-funk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Eclipse is a monstrous, horrible piece of software that I hope to never need to use again. IntelliJ forever!

    Could this be the vi/emacs argument for the 00's?

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