MyEclipse is a commercial IDE built on Eclipse right? I'm curious to know a fellow developer's opinion on what some of the improvements over free Eclipse are ...
Sean On 2/9/06, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sean Schofield schrieb: > > I personally love JBuilder but it is very pricey. > I think you brought up the main point, now that the enterprise stuff > finally again is moving into sane domains pricewise (Thanks to Sun and > MyEclipse) Borland simply cannot afford to charge this money for their > stuff anymore. > Borland started as a tools vendor with moderate prices at a time where > tools simply cost a fortune. So lots of people who wanted to learn > programming started to use their tools, lots of professionals as well > who could not afford the heavy priced alternatives. > > Once Kahn was kicked out they lost this strategy and pushed a high price > strategy with Enterprise plastered all over it (probably a stupid idea > of some MBAs taking over internally) > > > By JBuilder X they > > really worked out most of the kinks. I tried Eclipse but everything > > was too much of a PITA to get working. Every time I try switching to > > another IDE I just keep going back to good 'ole JBuilder. > > > Well it never was the quality, yes JBuilder had some kinks but overall > the quality always was okay, the problem with Borland always was with > the management, not really knowing where there core assets and core > market was. > (The whole Inprise fiasco was self made, for the same reasons why people > were moving away from JBuilder in masses the last years) > > > The funny thing is that others like MyEclipse currently have huge > success with the same strategy Borland had 20 years ago. > But those companies are not driven by MBAs but by people who saw a need > for something like a cheap tool alternative to the expensive enterprise > IDEs because many developers simply cannot afford that stuff. > > And just to sum it up, I have seen about 10 companies in the recent past > using MyEclipse and none using JBuilder anymore. The reason for most was > that the price was right and the tool was good enough. > > >
