Of all of the really good and useful MS Blogs I read, I really hate to see ones like this:
Eclipse redux, again and again and again…..
Just like the Mono article I wrote about the other day, this is just more MS Evangelist hot-air.
The truth of the matter is, Eclipse is a real threat to MS. I mean come on… Why in the world would MS give Visual Studio away for free if they could still get people to fork over $1000 for it?
Before Eclipse, what was the alternative? Emacs, and gcc. vi for the die-hards. But what was available in an integrated package? Well, that’s why people use Visual Studio. But now there’s (almost) a viable alternative.
People who know me already know that I’m the biggest Visual Studio fanatic there is, but for this guy to say that Eclipse isn’t a MS competitor is drinking too much of the all-you-can-drink kool-aid in the fridge.