LinuxWorld Australia: Eclipse May Take New Name After Reorganisation

“The group in charge of the open-source Eclipse project approved
a three month long restructuring process this week that should
reduce IBM’s dominant role in the effort and make the project more
attractive to Java vendors such as Sun Microsystems and BEA
Systems.

“The process will transform Eclipse into an independent
corporation and may even see the project assume a new name that is
more palatable to Sun, which has long been miffed by IBM’s decision
to name the effort after a celestial event associated with the
obscuring of the Sun…”

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