Can open source IDEs coexist with commercial IDEs? The answer is most emphatically 'Yes.' We feel that Eclipse is providing the building blocks for creating IDEs,

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Java and PHP compete at some level and I think it's great,

No 'real' conference would ever think of including two such wildly different topics on the same agenda. But in fact, it works really well to have such an eclectic mix. Everyone in the room is there because they want to be.

Did I feel we needed it? No more than normal, that part of it. Did I want it? Yes. All the things that were talked about and any number of things this season, I joked about it, but it was true. I'm human just like anyone else.

"Einstein need not wait for an apple to fall"...That is the essence of Open Source Software..