Sun+Eclipse - almost a good story
The sleepy reverie of an IBM Rational keynote presentation at JavaOne in San Francisco was temporarily broken by what appeared to be one of the news stories of the week – Sun had opted to join Eclipse. Did this mean that its own development environment, NetBeans, might be dropped in favour of the Eclipse IDE? The possibilities …
Yes, it would have been a great story, but I think we should be even more charitable here... they did, after all, allow Eclipse to run on the platform by releasing the patch. I know of one company that might have had a different stance... and they are new found friends of Sun.
