Re: Borland Releases JBuilder to Eclipse
Slashdot reports that Borland is giving JBuilder away on Eclipse now:
"The Register is reporting that Borland has released the base version of JBuilder as open source on Eclipse! Is this just the next company to use open source as part of a marketing tool, akin to Sun, IBM and Oracle's opensource IDE push? Is the future of enterprise IDE open?"
So my question is: What's the revenue model (for Borland) behind this? Too many people look at open source as some sort of good/evil divide - at the end of the day, the more important question is: where the revenue comes from - no revenue, no business...
Comments
[Sebastian N.] April 24, 2005 8:51:10.918
That's simple to answer: The base version of JBuilder doesn't contain any important enterprise stuff and is lacking a lot of enhanced tools. Plus, you don't get support. Once you want/need that, you'll buy a commercial license. Nothing too unsimilar from vwnc I guess. You get the source there, too, but no support. The one difference with vwnc is, that you can't release commercial stuff built with it and you get the whole thing. Not some trimmed down version.