[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“…for large-scale programming projects. That would be the
opinion you’d expect to hear from the proprietary gang in Redmond,
Wash., not from open-source advocates and board stewards of
Eclipse, the open-source framework for application developers. But
that’s the case.
The problem is that Eclipse lets programmers easily obtain and use
any plug-in they fancy. That may be cool for the coder, but it’s
uncool for the corporate IT manager who wants to maintain a
semblance of control over a project. “Which plug-in do you use?
Which one do you standardize on?” asks George Paolini, a vice
president at Borland Software Corp. in Scotts Valley, Calif…”