Aptana, maker of Web development and cloud computing tools, has acquired the Pydev IDE for Python development. The Eclipse-based Pydev tools suite supports Google App Engine development.

Splunk, the San Francisco-based big-data analytics company, has announced the general availability of the Splunk Plug-in for Eclipse. The plug-in includes a project template for building a new Splunk ...

Eclipse supports a wide range of project developments, including C/C++, PHP, Python and Perl via extensible plug-ins. The IDE is cross-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS.