Microsoft joins Eclipse
Microsoft on Tuesday announced it was joining the Eclipse Foundation as a solutions member. Membership will enable the company to collaborate more closely with the Eclipse community, which has more than 240 members. It also provides an outlet for delivering tools and services for all development teams. Microsoft will be able to improve its cloud services, SDKs and tools, according to Shanku Niyogi, general manager of the Visual Studio team. "It is clear that Microsoft is a changed company and is now willing to engage developers in their existing communities," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "I do not see any immediate change at Eclipse or the open source community as a whole resulting from this," he told LinuxInsider. History With Eclipse Microsoft already delivers a number of Eclipse-based tools, including the Azure Toolkit for Eclipse and Java SDK for Azure, which enables Eclipse users to build cloud applic...