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| <td align=left width="72%"> <font class=indextop> eclipseCon sponsors</font><br> | |
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| EclipseCon 2005 Announces Gold-Level Sponsors</b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <li>Accelerated Technology, Actuate, Agitar, Borland, HP and IBM Named | |
| Gold Sponsors </li> | |
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| <P>OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA - December 9, 2004 - The Eclipse Foundation announced | |
| the Gold-level sponsors for EclipseCon 2005, the annual gathering of the | |
| Eclipse community to be held February 28 through March 3, 2005, at the | |
| Hyatt Regency, Burlingame, CA, United States. Six leading technology companies, | |
| Accelerated Technology, Inc. a Mentor Graphics Division, Actuate Corporation, | |
| Agitar Software, Borland Software Corporation, HP and IBM will be the | |
| key sponsors of the conference.</p> | |
| <P> "Eclipse is enjoying a tremendous amount of success and popularity | |
| in a number of different markets, including enterprise Java development, | |
| embedded, testing, business intelligence and enterprise IT," explained | |
| Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "This | |
| diversity is reflected in our ability to attract leading vendors from | |
| these markets to act as Gold-level sponsors for EclipseCon. We are honored | |
| to have these companies offer their significant sponsorship for our conference."</p> | |
| <P>The EclipseCon technical program will appeal to beginners through advanced | |
| users, developers of Eclipse-based applications, enterprise architects | |
| and other technology decision makers. The program consists of more than | |
| twenty tutorials and three days of sessions. Please visit <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/?prgold" target="_blank">www.eclipsecon.org</a> | |
| for additional information about the program.<br> | |
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| <P><b>Registration and Hotel Information</b><br> | |
| Registration and hotel information is available at <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/?prgold" target="_blank">www.eclipsecon.org</a>. | |
| Conference fee discounts are offered for those registering before January | |
| 31, 2005.<br> | |
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| <P><b>Information for Press and Analyst Organizations</b><br> | |
| Members of the press and analyst community are encouraged to attend EclipseCon | |
| 2005. Registration information is available at <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/?prgold" target="_blank">www.eclipsecon.org</a>.<br> | |
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| <b>Information for Exhibitors</b><br> | |
| Additional sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are still available. | |
| Organizations interested in exhibiting at EclipseCon 2005 are invited | |
| to visit <a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/?prgold" target="_blank">www.eclipsecon.org</a> | |
| for more information. Interested parties should also email <a href="mailto:eclipsecon2005exhibitor@eclipse.org">eclipsecon2005exhibitor@eclipse.org</a>. | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About the Eclipse Foundation</font></b></td> | |
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| <P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member-supported corporation | |
| that hosts community based open source projects. Eclipse creates | |
| royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development | |
| tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application | |
| construction. Eclipse-based offerings give developers freedom of | |
| choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported | |
| environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework | |
| that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving | |
| time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, | |
| providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise and differentiation. | |
| The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with | |
| extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already | |
| been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, | |
| QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full details of the Eclipse | |
| Foundation and white papers documenting the design of the Eclipse | |
| Platform are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> | |
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| <div align="center">Barbara Stewart <br> | |
| Patterson & Associates <br> | |
| barbara@patterson.com <br> | |
| 480.488.6909 </div> | |
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| <P>Brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their | |
| respective holders. Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks | |
| or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States | |
| and other countries.<br> | |
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