Reinforcing the company's strategy around open source business models, IBM today announced new software and resources to help customers leverage their investments in open source development tools and resources.

The new offerings will help software development teams build Eclipse-based open integrated development environments that are technologically diverse and vendor neutral.

"IBM is responding to the growing needs of customers and the open source development community, by addressing the requirement for commercial vendors to complement the current open source community model," said Bola Rotibi, Senior Analyst, Ovum.

With today's set of announcements, IBM is nurturing the next phase of Eclipse adoption

New Eclipse Callisto-based software development tools -- IBM is rolling out a comprehensive set of Eclipse Callisto tools to help clients quickly design, develop and test applications.

New Eclipse Callisto resources -- developerWorks, the skills-building hub of IBM's developer community with nearly 5.5 million registered users, offers a wide range of free Eclipse-focused tools to help developers build and maintain their Eclipse skill-set.

IBM is also unveiling today a new customer support program, IBM Rational Elite Support for Eclipse, that will provide hands on technical assistance to the more than 2.3 million users* of Eclipse worldwide.

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Prashanth Rai