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| 8 | <td align=left width="72%"> <font class=indextop> New Web Infrastructure </font><br>
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| 15 | <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Press release</font></b></td>
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| 19 | <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b>
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| 20 | Eclipse Foundation Launches New Web Infrastructure to Support the Expanding Eclipse Community</b></span></b></h1>
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| 22 | <li>HP, IBM, Intel and Novell Contribute Technology Resources for Critical Upgrade</li>
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| 24 | <P>Ottawa, ON—June 1, 2005 -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced
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| 25 | a major infrastructure upgrade of the Eclipse community web site (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org</a>).
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| 26 | This upgrade was made possible through contributions of hardware and software
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| 27 | from HP, IBM, Intel and Novell. Due to increased Web traffic and download
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| 28 | rates among the burgeoning Eclipse open source community, Eclipse.org’s
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| 29 | web infrastructure has been redesigned to scale for growth and ensure
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| 30 | high availability for the entire community. </p>
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| 32 | <p>With approximately 1.2 million page views on an average day and 10 terabytes of data transferred per
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| 33 | month, the previous infrastructure for the site was under a constant strain. As more companies join the
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| 34 | Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse technologies gain adoption across the industry, it was clear that a major
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| 35 | change to the infrastructure was necessary. A new product release of Eclipse-based open source
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| 36 | projects, such as the upcoming Eclipse 3.1 Platform launch, could cause massive surges in traffic and
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| 37 | bring downloads to a standstill. With the new architecture, throughput is greatly increased as are the
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| 38 | expanded capabilities needed for periods of high traffic. </p>
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| 40 | <p>“As the membership of the Foundation and the usage of the technology continues to grow, the
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| 41 | scale and complexity of our site has expanded dramatically,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive
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| 42 | director of the Eclipse Foundation. “We thank HP, IBM, Intel and Novell – all active
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| 43 | members and leaders in open source – for their generous contributions toward better serving the
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| 44 | needs of the community. With their help, we can continue our commitment to support the broad array of
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| 45 | open source development in the Eclipse ecosystem.”</p>
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| 46 | <p>HP, IBM, Intel and Novell contributed software, hardware and expertise to help the Eclipse Foundation build this new web infrastructure. </p>
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| 47 | <p>HP contributed four new HP Integrity rx2600 servers, each equipped with two Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and 8GB of memory.</p>
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| 48 | <p>Intel contributed eight 1.3GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 processors that were coupled with the servers
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| 49 | contributed by HP. In addition to the processors, Intel IT also contributed their expertise in
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| 50 | large-scale enterprise computing by providing valuable assistance with the architectural design
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| 51 | and implementation of the scalable and highly-available new Eclipse computing infrastructure.</p>
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| 52 | <p>IBM provided to the Foundation three IBM eServer p5 550 servers, each powered by four POWER5
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| 53 | processors and 16G of memory. The company also provided resources to help Eclipse expand its
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| 54 | memory and storage space. IBM contributed 24 36G disks and an IBM TotalStorage EXP Plus 320 with
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| 55 | 14 146G disks.</p>
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| 56 | <p>Novell donated SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for Intel Itanium Processor Family and IBM
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| 57 | POWER processors for the infrastructure, as well as technical support services. </p></td>
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| 67 | <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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| 74 | <P> Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an
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| 75 | extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.
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| 76 | Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development
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| 77 | lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for
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| 78 | Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client
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| 79 | applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology
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| 80 | vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals
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| 81 | extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.</p>
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| 82 | <P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a> </p></td>
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| 87 | <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Media
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| 95 | <div align="center">Laura Ackerman <br>
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| 96 | Schwartz Communications<br>
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| 97 | 781-684-0770<br>
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| 98 | <a href="mailto:eclipse@schwartz-pr.com">eclipse@schwartz-pr.com</a></div>
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