The only current problem I see is that the Java platform and Eclipse
Framework were never monetized. I think Eclipse Foundation is spending
too much time on adopting too many small open sources projects and not on
providing a long term stable frameworks on which existing vendors could
leverage to generate revenues.
The problem is that many companies believe that the community will improve
open source plugins and that it is a good long term investment to select
these open source plugins and not to buy existing vendor solutions. The
dilema having too many small open source projects is that there are just
one to five part-time commiters and the needed quality for professional
software is never reached.
I hope that large corporations will with this acquisition understand that
only using open source projects and not purchasing any other tool is not
possible anymore with IBM acquisition of Sun. I hope that Eclipse will
finally become a profitable market for ISV vendor.
If Eclipse just remain "a gigs open source market" then IBM will certainly
not invest anymore. This is why I think that IBM will first consider how
to monetized Eclipse versus Netbeans than the real technological value of
each platform. Open source professional tools market is therefore dead
today !!
This is the return of the king "IBM" and the end of Sun open source
monetized market dream.