Google Plans To Get Eclipsed Like Salesforce

Google is contemplating joining the Eclipse (Java IDE) Foundation in some capacity. Good news for Eclipse and Java all around.

Greg Stein, an engineering manager in the open-source group at Google and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, told eWEEK that Google has considered joining Eclipse and has talked with Eclipse’s executive director, Mike Milinkovich, about the possibility.

In an interview following his keynote address at the EclipseCon 2006 conference here March 22, Stein said of the search giant’s possible move toward Eclipse: “We’re thinking about it. We’ve been talking to Eclipse. I’ve had some conversations with Mike, and we’re either going to join in some capacity or we’re going to donate money. But either way we want to help Eclipse.”

Apparently Google uses Eclipse internally.

Salesforce.com announced its membership in Eclipse earlier this week. Adam Gross, vice president of developer marketing at San Francisco-based Salesforce.com announced that the company had joined the Eclipse Foundation and released a new AppExchange Toolkit for Eclipse.

“We are actively reaching out to Eclipse developers,” Gross said. “We think Eclipse is the way things are trending.”

Moreover, “We’re starting to see more and more cooperation between Apache and Eclipse,” Stein said.

Source: eWeek