Any thoughts on the relationship between Eclipse and NetBeans, if IBM
does acquire Sun?
NetBeans? Swing? What are those? :-) How much of the Sun can you
typically see after a total Eclipse?
Seriously though, if the rumored deal passes anti-trust muster (not at
all clear), NetBeans best hope will be to have its sale to a third party
be made an anti-trust condition of the deal. Even then, it's just going
to wither and die at its new home. Great news for plugin vendors - half
the investment, twice the available market.
Resolving the Swing vs SWT NIH situation will be a little bit more,
shall we say, "interesting" since there are so many customers using
Swing. With competitive bashing is no longer an issue, there will be no
point in investing in both, but resolving the situation is going to be
messy and expensive.
The one big positive will be that it should put an end to the petty Java
infighting that these two have engaged in for so many years. All hail
our glorious overlords! :-)