thank goodness it's from Lotus, or we'd be doomed....

[James Tauber]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:55:41 -0500, "Meltsner, Kenneth"
<Kenneth.Meltsner at ca.com> said:
> There are other weirdnesses, such as the use of the Eclipse platform for
> future "thin-client" applications.  Eclipse is pretty cool, but it's
> (mostly) intended for developers.  I'm not sure how this translates to
> "host for custom applications."

Eclipse is moving away from just being an IDE framework to being a rich
client application framework. Vendors are wanting to build stuff on
Eclipse that doesn't follow the "edit files organized in projects on the
file system and then build" paradigm that is currently forced on them. By
the time Eclipse 3.0 comes out, it should be possible to build
applications on top of it that have nothing to do with source code
development.

Eclipse is the new Emacs.

I predict that by 2005, there will be people that never leave Eclipse to
do their work.

James
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