NetBeans, Visual Studio Are Eclipse's Competitors: Wayne Beaton
Wayne Beaton, while being interviewed by mediapersons, accepted that Sun’s NetBeans and Microsoft’s Visual Studio are competitors to the Eclipse IDE. After giving a vague, rambling answer to the first interviewer, Beaton presented a strong argument to the second. “Yes, the Eclipse IDE competes with NetBeans and Visual Studio. Yes, Eclipse RCP competes with NetBeans RCP and other application frameworks. Yes, Eclipse BIRT competes with other reporting tools and frameworks. Yes, EMF competes with other modeling tools. Yes, Visual Editor competes with other visual composition tools and frameworks. Yes CDT, Web Tools, and Test and Performance Tools Platform compete with other frameworks and tools in their respective domains. For that matter, Eclipse competes with Apache, SourceForge, and others for open source projects. Yes, we’re very competitive.”