“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…”
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