“A couple of years ago, I described the Eclipse project as open
source’s best-kept secret, and to some extent that’s still true
today. Even though most in the free software world have heard of
Eclipse, they are probably unaware of just how far it has come from
its origins as an integrated development environment for Java.“Today, the list of its projects is extremely impressive; more
importantly, it has moved way beyond its initial focus on Java and
development tools to address an increasing range of enterprise
computing needs. The latest example of Eclipse’s widening ambition
is Equinox, which joins the increasingly crowded runtime
sector…”