“BEA Systems on Friday confirmed its plans to join the Eclipse
Foundation open source tools consortium.“The company will participate as a top-level ‘Strategic
Developer’ member, paying as much as $250,000 per year in dues, and
is vowing to ship a commercial product based on Eclipse within one
year, Eclipse said. BEA is proposing to lead a language development
tools project based on the company’s Javelin compiler framework for
Java, according to Eclipse…”