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Two developers from the new Eclipse Foundation say Eclipse Consortium's Eclipse 3.0 open-source development platform now promotes some of the values of the open-source movement: meritocracy, open participation, and transparency. The Eclipse Consortium's Eclipse 3.0 will include Swing/SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) interoperability. The Swing-SWT interoperability issue is newsworthy, since Sun Microsystems, which supports Swing, may join or work with the Eclipse Foundation. Swing and SWT, which are competing Java graphical user interface (GUI) libraries, are respectively Sun's technology (part of Java 2 Enterprise Edition); and an IBM library that is part of Eclipse. At EclipseCon, Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist for Sun, told an audience at the first Eclipse developer conference that there is room for Sun's NetBeans and Eclipse, and that Sun has no plans to develop Eclipse products, but would still consider joining the Eclipse Foundation of specific business conditions were met. Phipps says, 'secret negotiations' are underway. Phipps bluntly stated that Sun and IBM are competitors, but other industry experts say Eclipse is a way to unify the previously divided communities of Java and open source developers. Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat, says Eclipse is at a tipping point in the areas of developer attraction and impact on the industry.
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