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Actually Eclipse was a product that IBM designed in the 90' : VisualAge (I used it at that time, it was really slow on an average computer). In the 2000 IBM re

Actually Eclipse was a product that IBM designed in the 90' : VisualAge (I used it at that time, it was really slow on an average computer). In the 2000 IBM renamed it "WAS" and it was its main studio for J2EE (Websphere) developpers. Some people really liked it. Then IBM opensourced it as "Eclipse". This name was perhaps a pun on "Sun".

ethbro 9y ago
I think most people are aware where it came from. ;)
- stuff4ben 9y ago
  Been a Java developer since 1999 and have used everything, MS Visual J++, JBuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ. Sadly I just got the "joke" :( Never put two and two together, I just thought it was a cool name...
  - vram22 9y ago
    What happened to JBuilder? I had used for a while earlier. Seemed good then. (ex-Borland fan here.) Did it get messed up in the general mess up that Borland (aka a few other corp names over the years) did to their once-good products, or was it some other reason?
vram22 9y ago
>Then IBM opensourced it as "Eclipse". This name was perhaps a pun on "Sun". Yes, I had read that rumour too - that it implied the Eclipse of the Sun ... Of course the Eclipse logo (last I checked) also implied that.