Reg Developer: Oracle Rebuffs Sun's NetBeans

"Weeks after the companies pledged their software love for another 10 years, Oracle has quietly--but firmly--rejected Sun Microsystems' NetBeans open source Java technology.

"In a Q&A published on the Oracle website, Thomas Kurian, Oracle senior veep for server technologies development, paid due respects to NetBeans, but said his company continues to back its own JDeveloper integrated development environment (IDE) and the Eclipse framework..."

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