Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large and vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse platform.
I'm currently in the process of expanding my programming horizons to linux. In order to do that, it is important to have a good basic toolset on which you can rely on. and what is more basic then the IDE in which you write your code?
This talk will outline what happens when you build a really cool client tool based on Eclipse, then realize that half your users only use Visual Studio and the web.