Se synexeia ths mikrhs parousiashs pou egine gia to Eclipse IDE sto 1o Open Source Workshop, to parakatw link odhgei se 3 ar8ra me sygkriseis tou Eclipse me ta pio gnwsta Java IDE ths agoras (Netbeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Borland JBuilder). PS: ta ar8ra einai grammena apo mhxanikous ths IBM, pou einai founding member tou Eclipse.org.