"Historically, the two development groups have not worked or played well with each other. Both, however, have had a common goal: an open-source, inexpensive Java IDE (integrated development environment) that can be used on multiple platforms to produce programs for various computer architectures.
"As Marc Erickson, then communications manager for the Eclipse Java IDE project, said in early 2003, "Developers need and want tools that can deal with an increasing complex computing world while letting them work with a single toolkit.""
