The nation that is supreme above all others during one age, will be eclipsed by another in the next age.
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,
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together.
Customers are very happy when the vendors they deal with adopt Eclipse because it reduces training costs.
Vendors can add value on top of this stack, build tools on top of Eclipse and the value of the Eclipse ecosystem will grow,
Basically, it takes Eclipse in the large PHP developer community.
In terms of personal use, the Eclipse 500 is going to take off, people are dying to get their hands on them.
When Usenet was eclipsed by websites in the late 1990s, people from that world - many of them programmers - wanted to bring the freewheeling, amazing discussions of Usenet to the web. And thus, RSS was born.
Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.
What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!