Mar 12
I think that Eric is a good speaker and the Eclipse project is interesting,but was it worthy of a keynote slot? I say this as it ended up as more of a product pitch for Jazz, which looked good in one way, but only if you are going to base your team around it, and i believe that there are inherent risks there; integration with eclipse scares me off. I believe its getting more to a stage where you find teams picking an ide/tools based on the problem space i.e netbeans mobile and profile tools are excellent. Therefore, opting for an integrated jazz type product ends up reducing choice.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:36 am
I agree, the whole thing ended up with a product pitch and a bad one at that. Erich Gamma has a ton of experience dealing with all the issues with distributed development, different cultures, releasing components. I had the feeling there was a tonne of emotion, love, hate and ideas that has gone into making Eclipse the successful development project it is. I would love to see more of those ideas put forth to the development community, because I think we all struggle with them at some level. But to think that can be summed up in a tool… I just can’t make that leap of faith.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am
After the evening keynote on ‘Does my bus look big in this’ i found the morning session looked even worse. It seemed that the Jazz tool was looking like the mother of all enterprise buses.