"We are delighted to have Salesforce.com join the Eclipse Foundation," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse, in a prepared statement released by Salesforce.com. "Salesforce.com has shown how on-demand will change not only how applications are delivered, but also how they are built. Uniting the technology of Eclipse and the power of Salesforce.com's Web services is a win-win for developers."

Open source CRM vendor SugarCRM will also sign on as an Add-In Provider member.

"At this time we are not planning to run a project; however, we want to support the Eclipse foundation by joining our open source community with Eclipse's as the Eclipse IDE is the development platform of choice for our SugarCRM developers and community members," said SugarCRM Director of Marketing Tara Spalding in an e-mail.

With its acquisition of Gauntlet Systems, Borland is looking to improve its software development process offerings as part of the company's SDO (Software Delivery Optimization) strategy.

"What Gauntlet Systems provides is a totally new approach to quality, focused on defect prevention, enforcing best practices, and enabling accountability," said Rob Cheng, Borland director of development of development products.