David Berlind - a well known journalist - is in his ZDNet blog entry called Out of '05 and into '06, Eclipse is on a major roll is asking a question whether it is time for NetBeans to finally throw in the towel.

I'm actually wondering what are the reasons David thinks NetBeans might even think about throwing in the towel. I can't seem to find any reason for such an action - NetBeans marketshare is growing (NetBeans Mobility is growing even more ), we have many features you cannot find in Eclipse - Matisse, Mobility Pack, seamlessly integrated support for web applications, collaboration tools, and many other features one usually has a hard time to put (and only if available) to Eclipse.

Perhaps the latest version of Netbeans David has seen was 3.5 (or some other 3.x version) - a lot of things has changed since than. It is definitely too early to throw in the towel for both of the parties - with release of 4.0 NetBeans got a second breath and the features of upcoming 5.0 are clearly demonstrating the huge effort which has been put into the product to make it eventually the best IDE for Java (and also non-Java - stay tuned) development .

P.S. Happy New Year everyone