IntelliJ IDEA Goes Free and Open Source

In my blog history you can find a short story about IntelliJ IDEA, and my opinion about this cool product, but I could not believe that it would get so far. Few days ago, in my inbox settled one beautiful email with wonderful news:)

Roman Strobl, well known technology evangelist wrote to the java group about JetBrains announcement that IntelliJ IDEA goes to open source:)

Here is more details from this beautiful mail:
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JetBrains is pleased to announce its next step in supporting the open source community. Starting with the upcoming version 9.0, IntelliJ IDEA will be offered in two editions: Community Edition - free and open-source, and Ultimate Edition, which until today has been referred to simply as IntelliJ IDEA.

Developers can download the *Community Edition* for free, check out its sources, build it and contribute to it. Community Edition has all the crown jewels of IntelliJ IDEA: various refactorings and code inspections, coding assistance, debugging, TestNG and JUnit testing; CVS, Subversion and Git support, as well as Ant and Maven build integration. Community Edition is the perfect choice for those working on pure Java/Groovy applications or doing Swing development.

To learn more and download the Public Preview, please visit this page: http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/free_java_ide.html.

Ultimate Edition extends Community Edition by providing support for many web frameworks, additional languages and technologies and introduces many deployment options.

To review the detailed list of new features of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 9, and to download the Preview build, please visit http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html.

You can read about the differences between the Community Edition and the Ultimate Edition at http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/editions_comparison_matrix.html.

We are also launching a new open source site: http://www.jetbrains.org. Visit this site, join the community, share your ideas and contribute!