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Holy cow! That is a serious milestone to pass. My congratulations to the whole MyEclipse crew. You guys are proving that great value is what it take t sell software in a world where almost everything is open source. Long may you run!

Rick

Is that 500,000 current users with active accounts or 500,000 people that have used it historically? I'd like to know how they arrived at that number. I have a feeling it's some what inflated knowing that the two companies I've worked for in the last 4 years gave it up as well as a number of friends and their companies. MyEclipse was king a while back but I haven't heard anyone say a nice thing about it in recent years.

It's also nice to see some of the people involved with MyEclipse take time to up vote this link but I haven't seen their names on any other threads in the last few months not related to MyEclipse.

jc;

As for the numbers, the stat is based off of multiple factors, but is not simply a "used historically" number. There are many ways we harvest this info that would be tedious to post. Needless to say, with over 12,000 companies as customers with developer license counts from 1-4000 and everywhere in the middle, it's not difficult to see how, when coupled with the licences of individual/personal developers, the numbers add up quickly.

I'm sorry you have had a bad experience with MyEclipse. Have you tried it out recently? This release has been getting a lot of praise from our users, and I'd invite you to give it a whirl. If you'd like, I could drop you a free subscription trial to test out to see if it changes your mind. 4 years is a long time in this industry and happens to be the entire lifecycle of the MyEclipse product, so there may be some new things you have not taken the time to discover from previous releases.

As far as no one saying saying anything nice about it, I believe you missed the most recent niceity in the comment above yours. :-)

Finally, I am a bit confused about your comment on nonparticipation. First (and with the caveat that I don't know who all of these voters are), I see only one voter who has voted on primarily MyEclipse stories, with the rest being active participants. Secondly, I notice in your history that you have taken a stance of actively voting AGAINST MyEclipse stories regardless of content type (this one being an exception with a non-vote), so I find it difficult to lend credence to your claim that there is a bias on our end.

I don't mind if you don't like MyEclipse. No tool is perfect for everyone. And you're welcome to vote against any story, as am I. But, as the DZone Sheriff himself has acknowledged in the past, we always play fair on DZone, and pride ourselves on it.

Again, I would be happy to extend a license to you for evaluation and would welcome any specific feedback you may have. As I showed in the entry, we are growing very quickly - there is a reason for that which you may want to discover.

Best,
Jens