Actually the competition that IBM wanted to eclipse was -- and still is -- Visual Studio.
Regards Neil On Jul 22, 7:04 am, crazysmoove <[email protected]> wrote: > Eclipse originally used the names of the Galilean moons of Jupiter for > its naming scheme, but after using Callisto, Europa, and Ganymede, > they didn't want to use Io for several reasons (including that "I/O" > already has a special meaning). So they went with Galileo, then > decided to switch away from Galileo-related names entirely, but to try > to stay in the astronomy family, hence "Helios," which was chosen well > before the Sun/Oracle announcement was made. Now they're just going > down the alphabet, which is why "Indigo" is next. I wouldn't be > surprised to see "Jupiter" after that, just so they can get one more > Jupiter/Galileo/astronomy reference in while it's easy... > > As for the name "Eclipse," I can imagine that some people at IBM > thought it might be funny to pick that name to poke at Sun, but I tend > to believe them when they say that really isn't the case. The reason > I believe them is that "Eclipse" could just as plausibly have been > picked because they wanted to convey that their new IDE would > "eclipse" the competition, which at the time was more JBuilder than > any Sun product. I could see that one going either way. Or maybe > they just wanted to jump in with what they thought was a cool-sounding > name after Mitsubishi used it for cars, but before it also became a > gum and a silly vampire movie targeting teenage girls... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
