The Effect Of Eclipse And The JTC On BI Applications

January 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

There’s a
good
article at the DW Institute about the impact
Eclipse (the open-source Java IDE) and the
Java Tools Community will have on the
custom BI applications market.
According
to the article;

"The controversy generated by the so-called Java Tools Community (JTC)
is having its impact on business intelligence. Some of the biggest movers
and shakers in the JTC its ten member companies include Oracle Corp. SAP AG,
and SAS Institute Inc. are also strong BI competitors.

Ironically, all three companies are also members of another development tool
initiative, called the Eclipse project, that some see as a competitor to the
JTC. The reality, say representatives from SAS and Oracle, is that both
initiatives will help to reduce a lot of the pain when building BI
applications using Java or Java-related technologies."

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Comments

  1. Nigel Thomas Says:

    January 27th, 2004 at 12:34 pm

    Eclipse and JTC are very much complementary; one is a set of low(ish) level technology and an IDE framework; the other is a stab at improving interoperability between different tools vendors’ various products (which themselves could build on Eclipse). The real loser (as usual) is Sun, which has theological objections to Eclipse and its use of (platform specific) SWT.
    I only wish we’d had things like Eclipse and JTC ten years ago when I was working with the Oracle CASE team; in those days it was hard enough to interoperate between Oracle CASE and Oracle Forms…
    Cheers Nigel