I have just listened to Dick's actual comments in the podcast... oh
dear.
Now we all know that when Dick doesn't know about something, he
speculates. Fair enough. But the process of naming Eclipse 3.6 took
place entirely in the open, so if anybody is interested in how it
really acquired the name, the full discussion is attached to this
Bugzilla entry:
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=271054
As you can see, the primary motivation was to find a word beginning
with H, and one of the other leading candidates was Hyperion. The same
process was used to choose the name for 3.7, and as a result the next
release will be named Indigo:
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306864
I hope that Indigo won't be perceived as some kind of slight against
Oracle... ;-)
Regards
Neil
On Jul 23, 8:22 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Actually the competition that IBM wanted to eclipse was -- and still
> >> is -- Visual Studio.
>
> > And this is the most important competition - Sometimes when I see
> > people using different Linux distributions arguing against each other
> > or developers using different languages arguing against each other, I
> > think: Is there really room for that kind of fight?
>
> That's why Linux expansion has got an upper limit... Competition is
> good, goal-less fight is bad.
>
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