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“Historically, the two development groups have not worked or
played well with each other. Both, however, have had a common goal:
an open-source, inexpensive Java IDE (integrated development
environment) that can be used on multiple platforms to produce
programs for various computer architectures.“As Marc Erickson, then communications manager for the Eclipse
Java IDE project, said in early 2003, “Developers need and want
tools that can deal with an increasing complex computing world
while letting them work with a single toolkit.””