DevX: Eclipse: The Last IDE You'll Ever Need? Mar 10, 2005, 02 :30 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (7518 reads) (Other stories by Glen Kunene)
"The support that Eclipse has gained from tools vendors such as BEA and Borland indicates how established the integrated development environment (IDE) has become since IBM developed and then spun-off the project more than a year ago. During the EclipseCon 2005 conference here last week, all were ready to sing the praises of Eclipse and anoint it as an application development phenomenon. What's been the secret sauce for Eclipse's success? The formula includes an open source foundation, Agile development-based release cycles, and vendor and language neutrality. All together, the result is an open-source development environment, application framework, and integration platform in one..."
