Sun also reiterated its previous decision not to join Eclipse because that would mean abandoning its NetBeans open-source Java tools initiative, which forms the basis for Sun's commercial products.

Eclipse initially was established as a Java programming tool project by IBM, which has been a Java ally but didn't always see eye to eye with Sun about the technology's fate.

Bug 319514 in the Eclipse bug database has all the gory details, but in a nutshell, Oracle changed the company name property on java.exe from "Sun Microsystems, Inc" to "Oracle".

Sun Microsystems is pondering joining the IBM-led Eclipse open source development tools project for Java, but still has some concerns, a Sun official said on Thursday. The company believes it is ...

Sun still might join Eclipse and merge NetBeans with Eclipse, he said. “There’s always room for discussion,” Jackson said during a session entitled, “Roundtable: Great Java Minds.” ...

Eclipse stuck. And while Sun was not necessarily the primary target, “these were really smart people, and I dont think the visualization and competitive implication was lost,” a source said.

Engineering, imaging science, and photography faculty and students took advantage of the total solar eclipse to gather data about the effects of the sun’s energy during a total eclipse to assess ...

The United States won't see another coast-to-coast total solar eclipse for 20 years. Here's the path of totality.