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| <p><strong>Ottawa, Canada - July 20, 2011</strong> - The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new open source initiative to define and implement a standard platform |
| for the software development tools used in the automotive industry. German carmaker BMW Group, the automotive suppliers Robert Bosch GmbH and Continental AG, and the Eclipse Strategic |
| Member itemis AG from Lünen, Germany are founding members of the initiative that will operate as an Eclipse Industry Working Group. The new <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG">Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group</a> will |
| be open to any organizations that want to participate in the goal of establishing a standard tools platform that will be used throughout the automotive supply chain.</p> |
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| <p>Innovation in the automotive industry is mostly achieved by electronics and software functions. The system automobile is becoming increasingly complex, an open developer tool workbench |
| that extends throughout the supply-chain is becoming a must for the industry. Improvements and innovations to these software development tools are required to accelerate product |
| development, create high quality software features and improve integration across the automotive supply chain. </p> |
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| <p>BMW uses standards such as AUTOSAR, Flexray or Genivi in the development of automotive software. It is a necessary condition for BMW, that the tool chain supports these standards. We |
| believe that tools based on Eclipse are an efficient way to reduce gaps in the tool chain. It can be very helpful if Eclipse-based tools can not only be used as a stand-alone tool but also |
| as integrated components in a larger environment. The interoperability between the different Eclipse plug-ins from tool vendors can accelerate the development process, |
| Eclipse is a de-facto standard in the field of developing software development tools (for example ARTOP) and as integrated development environment for programming automotive software. |
| Therefore, a unified Eclipse platform is to be agreed on by all participants in the EAIWG. For this reason, the future participation of tool manufacturers in the EAIWG is absolutely necessary. |
| A single platform can reduce internal costs and accelerate cross-company development processes. BMW will use the Eclipse platform developed by the Working Group as a strategic development |
| environment. |
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| <p>Creating a standard platform for automotive tools will help us to faster innovate without compromising quality, explains Harald Mackamul, Senior Expert, Corporate Sector Research and |
| Advance Engineering, Robert Bosch GmbH. Collaborating with an open source community will allow us to share the costs and best practices for building new tools with other companies in the |
| automotive industry. We see this open innovation as the future for our software tools strategy.</p> |
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| <p>While we bundle forces to create the platform that we need, we provide a platform to our tools vendors that they can use to seamlessly integrate their products in our workbench. In |
| addition, the Eclipse Public License enables us to modify and extend the platform to our needs! says Ignacio Garro, Head of IT PLM Systems and Software at Continental Automotive.</p> |
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| <p>The Automotive Industry Working Group will operate under the Eclipse Foundation, an open source Foundation that specializes in software development tools and runtime. Eclipse Industry |
| Working Groups allow organizations to collaborate on the development of new technology innovation. The results of the working group will be made available under the Eclipse Public License |
| (EPL), a commercial friendly open source license. </p> |
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| <strong>About the Eclipse Foundation</strong> |
| <p>Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible |
| frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major |
| technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the |
| Eclipse Platform.</p> |
| <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">www.eclipse.org</a> </p> |
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| <li><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Auto_IWG">Automotive IWG</a></li> |
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