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October 18, 2007
More about Open Source Software (OSS) Development Tools

I promised some time back to look more at open source software (OSS) development tools.

So far, I have failed in that objective because of all the interest in
-- Microsoft "going OSS" (in my IT investement research analysis, I have even hypothesized about Microsoft acquiring Red Hat and Steve Ballmer accomodated my hypothesis at the Web 2.0 conference today by saying "anything's possible")
-- so-called "Linux patent battles" (that have nothing to do with OSS)
-- the need for more applications in the OSS space to keep the OSS ball rolling.

So a press release that crossed the wire today from Evans Data broght me back to more important stuff such as what do software developers use and why. Evans' recent survey says the Eclipse OSS development framework is an up and coming means to do service oriented architecture (SOA)-based development.

Actually what the survey found was that the Genuitec's MyEclipse IDE was gaining in popularity, and because MyEclipse supports primarily OSS tools... ispo facto and all the Latin stuff. To be clear, MyEclipse is not OSS; you need to pay a whole $50 a year to subscribe to it. But here are all the OSS distributions included with MyEclipse. Not surprisingly, Evans says, Visual Studio is still the most popular integrated development environment (IDE) and IBM's Rational, Oracle's JDeveloper and BEA's Weblogic Workshop are popular SOA developement tools as well. All have OSS tie-ins but are not OSS themselves. Genuitec, Oracle and of course IBM are on the Eclipse Foundation board.

All this development talk also reminds that I will be presenting a discussion of OSS in SOA on October 30 here on ebizQ.net along with many other great sessions as part of ebizQ's annual SOA In Action virtual tradeshow. To register, click here.