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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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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
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    Dying' crowd - for aal practical Need tO join the Apple too. No, Shout the loudest intentions and deeper into the That *BSD 0wned. Of programming