Business Objects to Join Eclipse Foundation

daria42 writes "Business intelligence specialist Business Objects is the latest software maker to join the Eclipse Foundation, and says it will move several products onto the open source platform -- but it's not yet saying which. 'We won't fight it, we'll embrace it,' said one of the company's executives in Sydney last week, talking about the open source software model. 'One of the reasons we've chosen to go with the Eclipse platform, rather than any of the other open source types,' she said, 'is that [Eclipse] actually has a model where vendors can sell value-added products into it, but still provide the service components.'"

Business Objects?

[RandoX]

Which business? And why are they objecting? Seriously, there should be at least SOME details in the synopsis.

I tried to join the Eclipse Foundation...

[digitaldc]

...but I was overshadowed by a brighter Java developer.

Totally off topic old joke

[Flying pig]

The story reminds me of the old Naval urban legend of the file being passed around a shore establishment and getting fatter and fatter without getting closer to completion until somebody scrawls on the front page "Round objects". Eventually the file returns but now on the front page a senior officer has written "Please will Mr. Round state his rank and clarify his objection".

So I have to ask: What is it about business that it objects to Eclipse?