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Also remember that despite of what their balance-sheet and financials say (which are impressive no doubt) they built a simple but solid product. Simple in a sense they did not run after the buzzwords of deep learning, in the cloud and all that stuff. It was a replacement for Eclipse and Netbeans which have been around for decades but a far far superior product.

Their revenue might look like just $270M but the value they have added by sheer gain in developer productivity across the world will run into several billions.




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