Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] Borland open sources JBuilder |
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Author | Pavel Cisar |
Post date | 2005-04-22T11:18:40Z |
marius popa wrote:
to my colleague (who was support technician for JBuilder at Borland in
CR) that Borland is inevitably going to lose it's 1st Java IDE position
to Eclipse, he was very, very doubtful. Then Borland lost Blake Stone
(among others) and now they finally admit that they definitely lost the
battle.
But I worry that this new Dale's OS plan would not work, again, because
I doubt that Eclipse developers would jump on JBuilder's code with great
enthusiasm. I suppose that only some parts of JBuilder would ever made
it into Eclipse, and after time too long for Borland.
best regards
Pavel Cisar
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/22/jbuilder_eclipse/At one regular "(ex)Borlander's pub meeting" two years ago, when I told
to my colleague (who was support technician for JBuilder at Borland in
CR) that Borland is inevitably going to lose it's 1st Java IDE position
to Eclipse, he was very, very doubtful. Then Borland lost Blake Stone
(among others) and now they finally admit that they definitely lost the
battle.
But I worry that this new Dale's OS plan would not work, again, because
I doubt that Eclipse developers would jump on JBuilder's code with great
enthusiasm. I suppose that only some parts of JBuilder would ever made
it into Eclipse, and after time too long for Borland.
best regards
Pavel Cisar