Carlos seems to be worried that JetBrains will give up all of their development-environment-ease-of-use secrets if they create a plugin for VS.Net. I see it more as a move to create an Embassy with .Net developers than anything else. Get them used to how development can be better with Alt-Enter, Alt-Insert and friends.
I think this is a great idea, because if I ever have to start writing C# (doubtful but one never knows) then I will definately want to have a tool that I am already familiar with. Like one of the poster's said on the Managability site, JetBrains is just dipping their toe into the water incase they need to jump all the way in later.
Heh, maybe they will put a short cut in, so from time to time when they hit F2 to get to the next error, it will lead them to microsoft.com :) If Carlos wanted to be really controversial, then he would have said that JetBrains was looking to be aquired by Microsoft.
I seriously doubt they are up for sale. They have already been a part of a larger company and left to start JetBrains. I doubt Borland could offer them enough money, since Borland now owns that "larger company". BEA wouldn't know a good deal if it kicked them in the face. Sun already has a development environment, not to mention another one coming soon.
No, I think the big houses are leaving JetBrains alone. I think they are allowing them to be the sand in the oyster shell of all IDEs hoping that they will all turn into pearls. But what happens when you put a diamond in an oyster shell?
Posted by carl at October 4, 2003 11:49 AM
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