Comments on: Reality checking the tools market

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:14:45 +0000

I can vouch for the Atlassian bit. We use JIRA and Confluence and we’re not Java developers at all. That being said, we’ve become pretty good at deploying Java apps simply out of necessity.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:52:17 +0000

Indeed, Jens, I have heard of your company as well! I’m glad to hear you all are doing well! I would welcome an opportunity to get together @ EclipseWorld– see you then!

By: Jens Eckels

Jens Eckels — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:14:09 +0000

Andy;

I would also like to point out, as Mark did, a possible exception to your rule in my company, Genuitec. Likely you have heard of our flagship tool, MyEclipse, but we have also branched out to recently release products specifically for IBM’s WebSphere and developer tools for management of Eclipse configurations.

MyEclipse alone enjoys over 600,000 users and Genuitec as a company is growing nearly 100% year-over-year in this competitive tools space.

Like Mark and Instantiations, we heavily support the Eclipse Foundation and ecosystem.

We are Gold sponsors of EclipseWorld (as well as sponsoring a training track), and if you’ll be around (as it sounds like you will), we’d love to chat face-to-face as well.

Best,
Jens Eckels
Marketing Manager
Genuitec

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:46:09 +0000

Thanks for posting, Mark– I am aware of Instantiations as I was a long time VisualAge user before Eclipse. I’m glad to hear you all are thriving too! It appears Instantiations will be in the Washington DC area for EclipseWorld– let’s meet in person then?

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:47:26 +0000

Hi Andrew,

If you’re not already familiar with a very successful, thriving Java tools company, Instantiations, then you need to be. (We’re working on bringing Andrew Binstock up to speed as well). With many accolades and awards under our belt, 10 years in business, with an Eclipse-based tools focus since 2002, we do have the “cornucopia of products,” including,

· CodePro AnalytiX™ - the most popular automated testing and quality improvement software development tools available for Eclipse.

· CodePro Profiler™ - launched last fall, it’s the first enterprise-ready performance profiling tool designed specifically for Eclipse.

· WindowBuilder™ Pro - the market-leading Java GUI builder that includes SWT Designer™, Swing Designer™ and (hugely successful) GWT Designer™; it enables powerful user interfaces to be created in minutes.

· WindowTester Pro™ — the leading tool for automating the testing of Swing and SWT GUIs.

· RCP Developer™ — the first development tool to leverage the open source Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) for creating Java-based client and stand-alone desktop applications.

We strongly support open source and the Eclipse Foundation, while being able to offer products and services that enterprises are very pleased with. We hope you will think about Instantiations as you go into consulting engagements. We’d be happy to show you a series of demos if you wish.

Kind Regards;

Mark Johnson
Vice President, Marketing & Business Development
Instantiations, Inc.