The foundation eventually established itself as a not-for-profit organization with its main goals to guide, implement, and share the development of open source Eclipse projects in a vendor-neutral environment. The founding Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers were Ericsson, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, QNX, SAP, and Serena Software.
ECLIPSE DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
The Eclipse Foundation was formed with the support of industry leaders like Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft, and Webgain. This led to more commitments to support and use Eclipse to develop commercial products. This allowed companies to use and include Eclipse in their own commercial products.
In 2001, to facilitate developer adoption of the IDE, IBM decided to provide Eclipse with an open-source, royalty-free license.
This integrated development environment (IDE) allowed customers to work in, and build custom development and application environments, respectively. IBM realized the value of having a complete set of tools in one environment or” workbench” that would work seamlessly together. Eclipse was originally started by IBM in the late 1990s in response to the need for a common development platform for all IBM products.
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