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by bm98 3202 days ago
> "According to Lee Nackman, Chief Technology Officer of IBM's Rational division (originating in 2003) at that time, the name 'Eclipse' (dating from at least 2001) was not a wordplay on Sun Microsystems, as the product's primary competition at the time of naming was Microsoft Visual Studio, which Eclipse was to eclipse." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)#Name

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Haha yes, don't bite the hand that feeds you.