[tzikis]

Hey @forgottenpass, perhaps I can shed some light. Please keep in mind these are my personal thoughts, not Codeanywhere's.

Building an IDE is a really, really, _really_ complex thing to do, and building one on the Cloud is 10X harder because the toolchains are much more complicated, and the technology is sometimes not even there and you have to break through technological barriers. It's telling that the other Cloud IDEs had millions of funding, and some of them still failed.

So the very first upside is that you can combine forces. 90% of the work is generic, and it's currently being done twice for 2 different Cloud IDEs. There's no point in reinventing the wheel. Add to that the Marketing costs that are also double, etc etc, and you can start to see how, organically, joining forces is better for both. Add to that the shared visions both companies had and the complimentary solutions/markets (one for Web Devs, one for Makers), and you start to see some big wins for all.

[forgottenpass]

You just talked about driving your own costs down, not that there is any benefit to me as an end user.

Care to take another stab at it?

[tzikis]

* lower costs => lower price * use the same IDE for different kinds of projects

[pc86]

Are you intentionally being rude, or are you like this in normal conversation?

[forgottenpass]

When someone is trying to sell to me, they're not holding "normal conversation," so I don't let them leverage the pleasantries of human conversation that would otherwise prevent me from pressing. It's my "just business" response to being on the losing side of "just business" interactions.

[pc86]

I feel sorry for you.