Welcome to the NetBeans Community NetBeans is dedicated to providing rock solid software development products (NetBeans IDE, NetBeans Platform) that address the needs of developers, users and the businesses who rely on NetBeans as a basis for their products. NetBeans is also a vibrant community where people from just about any country you can think of, have the ability ask questions, give advice, make a wide variety of contributions and ultimately share in the success of our products. You will find students on our mailing list, developers from top companies and individuals looking to sharpen their skills. In June of 2000 NetBeans was made Open Source by Sun Microsystems who remains the project sponsor. Please see our History section for a more detailed information.Today two products exist: the NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Platform. Both products are free for commercial and noncommercial. The source code to both are available to anyone, to reuse as they see fit, under the terms of use. Our legal section contains all information regarding licensings, copyright issues, privacy policy and terms of use. Complete product information can be found under in our Products section. Our community is healthy and growing thanks to the individuals, companies and complementing products (see third-party page) that are making NetBeans a success. To date there has been approximately 1,000,000 downloads of the NetBeans IDE. In the year 2002 there were 370,000 downloads of the NetBeans IDE and 25,500 downloads of the NetBeans Platform. Today there are approximately 20,000 registered users on www.netbeans.org and over 2500 subscribers on top-level mailing lists. Each month we have visitors from over 130 identifiable countries who are using and contributing to NetBeans. In Press Center you can find and review NetBeans press releases and articles where NetBeans name has appeared in the media. If we have missed something let us know!
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