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February 23, 2006 | Comments: (0)
JetBrains holds firm with commercial Java IDE
While it might seem like everyone is conceding the Java IDE market to the free, open source Eclipse platform, that is not the case with JetBrains.
The company has no plans to offer its IntelliJ IDEA Java IDE in an open source format and believes its product is strong enough to keep a price tag, instead of being given away.
"It's productivity," that gives IntelliJ IDEA an advantage, said Alex Tkachman, director of marketing at JetBrains.
Asked if JetBrains has any plans to offer up its IDE to open source, Tkachman answered, "Definitely not soon."
"We have to pay our bills," Tkachman said.
"We are not Sun or IBM, [able] to give stuff for free and make money on services," he said.
JetBrains on Monday will announce it has certified the JProfiler application profiler from ej-technologies as a companion product that will work with IntelliJ IDEA.
Posted by Paul Krill on February 23, 2006 03:03 PM
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