It's a great idea for some users and some use-cases. No it's not for everybody, but it doesn't need to be.
A really intriguing possibility of Eclipse Orion is the ability to run in mixed mode, with a subset of developers coding in Orion, while another subset codes in the traditional Eclipse desktop application. This isn't possible right now but it's on the roadmap. Neil On Mar 28, 3:53 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot are being announced, at the moment: > > Eclipse's Orion and OrionHub > eXo's Cloud IDE <http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/03/cloud-ide-java-exo> > Cloud9 IDE <http://cloud9ide.com/> > > From the user's side, not being able to work at all if the IDE provider > service goes down seems like a big drawback. The only advantage seems to be > maybe not having to set up a local environment. > > From the provider's side, I wonder if this is even a viable business. > Considering that paid Java IDEs are a pretty niche business, can a provider > with ongoing costs make any money at it? > > Would you use a cloud-based IDE? > > Moandji -- 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.
