[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Timescales to end of evaluation

["Dave Thomson" <Dave_Thomson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Tom Ayerst" <tom.ayerst@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9nn4pr$qpt$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Just to clarify does this mean that Eclipse will never be licensed for
> commercial development (in which case will it be similar to the Trolltech
> license allowing Open source development but requiring a purchase to do
> commercial development) or will it run in parallel to a commercial product
> (something like net beans).

Eclipse will be made available under an open source license.  You *will* be
able
to do commercial development with open source eclipse.

>
> Does commercial development mean developing software products for sale, in
> house development or both.

Both.

>
> When WSAD is released will it have any support for non-Websphere
> environments?  either actual or potential.
>
> Personally I am uncomfortable with the vagueness surrounding this.  I
> don't want to invest significant effort on an IDE then to find I cannot
> use it for development except in a commmercial incarnation that doesn't
> support or deployment environment.
>
Understandable concern, which I believe can not be fully addressed until you
see the license change to an open source license and can read the license
yourself.  It is this transition that we are focusing on now.

> Rgds.
>
> Tom
>
> Kyle Brown wrote:
>
> > Well, first of all, you must remember that Eclipse isn't so much an IDE
as
> > it is a toolkit for building IDE's.  IBM has already announced that they
> > will be selling a commercial tool based on the Eclipse technology
(called
> > Websphere Studio Application Developer), probably beginning sometime in
4Q
> > 2001.  That is probably what you should consider for real project
> > development with Eclipse.
>
> > Kyle Brown
> > IBM WebSphere Services
>
> > "Tom Ayerst" <tom.ayerst@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:9najvt$dms$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there a road map anywhere of time to the first non-evaluation
release
> > > of Eclipse?  As it is currently: "The Program must not be used in your
> > > normal business production environment." so we cannot consider it as a
> > > candidate IDE.
> > >
> > > Is it worth waiting (i.e. will it be soon) or should we just go with
one
> > > of the others now?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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