> As a side note, the one I AM willing to guess about
> is Netbeans. It would die. The good parts, such as
> the profiler, would hopefully be retooled as Eclipse
> plugins.
>
> Frankly, IMHo this should have happened years ago
> anyway. It was mostly Sun pride and stubbornness
> that keep NetBeans in the frey.
Except that there are some of us that consider Netbeans to be a superior tool, but that reopens another discussion that's beyond this thread. I have my doubts that IBM would support Netbeans or Swing if the merger went through, but who knows. Anything is possible.
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