Mike Milinkovich Eclipse Quotations

IBM has been at the forefront of establishing Eclipse as a premier open-source platform, and their continued commitment and contributions is an important part of our growing community.

Can open source IDEs coexist with commercial IDEs? The answer is most emphatically 'Yes.' We feel that Eclipse is providing the building blocks for creating IDEs,

The objective is to get people passionate about supporting the Eclipse projects.

Projects such as ALF enable vendors and users alike to provide the vision, innovation and resources to enhance the Eclipse platform.

The goal of Eclipse is to create a universal development platform to enable global enterprises to develop software more efficiently,

In the future we see Eclipse becoming a complete development platform with full application development lifecycle capabilities. It's still early, but tool integration is only one of the areas that will grow in importance.

Vendors can add value on top of this stack, build tools on top of Eclipse and the value of the Eclipse ecosystem will grow,

If we execute, we will, excuse the pun, Eclipse the Microsoft environment. Microsoft is worried about the passion of what open-source software means to developers.