Re: EGL and RPG - The Fastest Path to the Future

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

john e skrev  den 18-06-2008 17:44:
> But instead they completely lost control due to M$ market forces, didn't know what to do, and in the 90's Gerstner made the elephant dance by focusing on open technologies and open source. This is all good, but i think they (and we) lost a great opportunity here.
>   
Just a side note.

Eclipse is an initiative by IBM and has basically crushed all other Java 
IDE's, leaving only IntelliJ and Netbeans of which only IntelliJ is 
apprarently generating revenue.  The interesting thing here is that it 
is basically an Open Software project done _right_ - users create bug 
reports, developers use the latest bleeding-edge version, and everything 
is out in the open.  As you all know IBM then create their commercial 
offerings on top of this platform, and users even complain that it is 
not the newest version so something is done right :)

I think that Eclipse has been an experiment - can we do it this way and 
earn money? - and a very successful one at that.  Hopefully this will 
lead to the vaults being opened...