Re: Wild speculations about the "other" factors

IanH wrote:
Agreed. I worry that they will still be wrapped up in big-comapny
mentality: lawyers approval required for any communication, corporate
paranoia, dismissive attitude to customers - even inability to perform
simple web-site maintenance etc.

We'll see, they've made some strides in recent weeks/months, so I'm
hopeful about this.

What advantage would that have over Eclipse itself?

Control - lean, mean, focused development. Though Borland does give the
impression that it needs big, slow departments to achieve in a year the
same sort of progress that an agile company could achieve in a month.

Control is overrated. ;) But why not contribute to the Eclipse project
and control the parts that are pertinent? ISTM, the side benefit of
this would be that they get development of the other parts for free.

Performance - stick to a Windows only IDE, allow targetting of other
platforms where that makes commercial sense, eg linux.

Eclipse performs well enough on multiple platforms. Also, the culture
of Java and other cross-platform tools will require, IMO, a cross
platform IDE. Call me a purist, but it's also about the market. For
example, I know a lot of Ruby guys hack away on Macs.

The reality is that IDE's are commodities and DevCo should be looking to
go up the developer stack, not to ALM, but go higher in the abstraction
layers of geek-oriented development like ECO and MDA.


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