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> > >Finally, as for the $40M, IBM is actually pledged to spend $1 billion on >Open Sourcing some of their software. The $40 mil was some sort of software >development/environment package that I can not recall the name of. I think >it belongs with an "E". And how could the money have been better "Spent"? >They handed out, FREE to everyone, a software package worth about $40 >million. > The product, "Eclipse", is a development tool. More like a workbench that hold development tools, but it starts with some Java tools already plugged in. I'm not sure how the $40 million figure is reached. I would doubt that Eclipse itself cost $40 million to develop, so maybe a bunch of other code was included in the figure. I would like to see the Eclipse project gain a lot more ground. It would be wonderful to see GNU tools fitting into the Eclipse workframe and have this free IDE grow into something. But you know how open source stuff is, could fly or could crash. Who knows? >Adam Lang > -- Chris Rehm javadisciple@earthlink.net Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 1 John 4:7
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