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Eclipse exec talks about .Net rivalry
Mike Milinkovich, Eclipse executive director, talks about the state of the company, dynamic languages and rivalries with Sun and Microsoft
Paul Krill (InfoWorld) 13/09/2006 12:33:10

They seem to say differently.

Oh, good for them. I got the numbers, they don't.

Who do you see as your main rival, NetBeans or Windows .Net?

We clearly and have always felt that Eclipse is about enabling competition with Microsoft.

How have you fared there?

Actually, we started five years ago and I would say that starting from zero, the growth of Eclipse over the past five years has been absolutely phenomenal. It's been wonderful to see the development community embrace Eclipse the way it has over the last five years.

Is there anything else you wanted to mention?

Actually I just want to probably just close with reinforcing about RCP. To date, Eclipse has always been very much focused on tooling and being a tools platform, but what we're I think really seeing now is RCP, Rich Client Platform, becoming a very important runtime infrastructure for application developers and ISVs who want to build multiplatform applications running on the desktop. And I think that's a very important niche for Eclipse and something that we expect to see continuing to grow.

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