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by rzzzt 976 days ago
"It turned out Sun wasnt the target of the Eclipse moniker, though. In his keynote at the EclipseCon 2005 conference in March, Lee Nackman, chief technology officer and vice president of Design, Construction, and Test Tools at IBMs Rational Software division, said Microsoft Corp. was actually the company IBM wanted to 'eclipse' and was the true object of IBMs attention."

- https://www.eweek.com/development/eclipse-behind-the-name/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)#Name