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Eclipse Forms Independent Organization</b></span></b></h1> | |
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<LI>Membership Launches Not-For-Profit Corporation to Implement and Share | |
Technology</LI> | |
<LI> Establishes Scalable Governance Model for Open Source Projects and | |
Commercial Participation<br> | |
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<P> ECLIPSECON, ANAHEIM, CA—February 2, 2004—The Eclipse Board | |
of Stewards today announced Eclipse’s reorganization into a not-for-profit | |
corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the | |
Eclipse Platform into Open Source, Eclipse is now an independent body | |
that will drive the platform’s evolution to benefit the providers | |
of software development offerings and end-users. All technology and source | |
code provided to this fast-growing ecosystem will remain openly available | |
and royalty-free.<br> | |
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<P>With this change, a full-time Eclipse management organization is being | |
established to engage with commercial developers and consumers, academic | |
and research institutions, standards bodies, tool interoperability groups | |
and individual developers, plus coordinate Open Source projects. To maintain | |
a reliable and accessible development roadmap, a set of councils–Requirements, | |
Architecture and Planning–will guide the development done by Eclipse | |
Open Source projects. With the support of over 50 member companies, Eclipse | |
already hosts 4 major Open Source projects that include 19 subprojects.<br> | |
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<P> To oversee and staff this new management organization, Eclipse has established | |
a Board of Directors drawn from four classes of membership: Strategic | |
Developers, Strategic Consumers, Add-in Providers and Open Source project | |
leaders. Strategic </p> | |
<p>Developers and Strategic Consumers hold seats on this Board, as do representatives | |
elected by Add-in Providers and Open Source project leaders. Strategic | |
Developers, Strategic Consumers and Add-in Providers contribute annual | |
dues. The founding Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers are Ericsson, | |
HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, QNX, SAP and Serena Software. In | |
the coming weeks, the Board will announce its selection of a full-time | |
Executive Director to lead the Eclipse management organization.<br> | |
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<p>"As mainstream IS organizations begin implementing and deploying | |
service-oriented architectures like J2EE and .NET into new computing environments, | |
having standardized, integrated and interoperable technologies will become | |
increasingly important to their success. Industry consortiums like Eclipse | |
and NetBeans that implement tools based upon standards from groups like | |
the Object Management Group (OMG) and Java Tools Community (JTC) are well-suited | |
to address these types of problems–especially if the groups can | |
coordinate their efforts." says Gartner vice-president and research | |
director, Michael Blechar.<br> | |
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<p>According to Skip McGaughey, spokesperson for Eclipse, “This is | |
a significant step forward in the evolution of Eclipse. For the Open Source | |
development community, we’re establishing a strong support base | |
that will strengthen the projects and expand a powerful reusable architecture. | |
This creates long-term opportunities for reuse, interoperation and innovation | |
that enable both providers and consumers to take development tool technology | |
to the next level in functionality integration and usability.” <br> | |
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<p>With more than 18 million download requests recorded since its inception, | |
adoption of the Eclipse platform continues to accelerate. Development | |
environment providers value its powerful reusable architecture that provides | |
integration “by construction,” reduces duplication of effort | |
and creates new opportunities for innovation and differentiation. Add-in | |
providers are attracted by the ease with which seamless integration can | |
be achieved as well as the large business opportunity represented by this | |
growing ecosystem. End users appreciate the common look-and-feel and off-the-shelf | |
integration across a large selection of independently developed offerings. | |
With reorganization, Eclipse’s members have established the strategic, | |
operational and financial means to effectively support and accommodate | |
continued growth.</p> | |
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Partner Quotes</font></b></td> | |
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<td> <P> Hewlett Packard (HP)<br> | |
"As an independent, not-for-profit corporation, Eclipse will | |
provide a superior environment for tool integration and interoperability | |
and will continue to cultivate a vibrant community of tool providers | |
and users," said Mike Rank, director of developer resources | |
and partner enablement for HP. "HP is proud to serve on the | |
Eclipse board of directors and provide its experience and expertise | |
in both using and extending the Eclipse technology. As a strategic | |
member of the Eclipse organization, HP is committed to providing | |
developers with the tools needed to incorporate and leverage application | |
management capabilities over the entire software development lifecycle."</p> | |
<p>IBM<br> | |
"IBM, a leader and champion of the Eclipse movement, is committed | |
to continuing our significant investment to improve the Eclipse | |
platform, frameworks and related tools," said Lee R. Nackman, | |
IBM vice president of desktop development tools and chief technical | |
officer of Rational software." To deliver on the promise of | |
Eclipse, accommodate future growth, and further enhance the value | |
of this technology to the open community, IBM is proud now to help | |
launch Eclipse as an independent not-for-profit organization."</p> | |
<p>Intel<br> | |
"Intel is pleased to be a founding member of the new independent | |
Eclipse,” said Jonathan Khazam, general manager of Intel's | |
Software Products Division and member of the new Eclipse Board of | |
Directors. "We are committed to playing an active role in the | |
new organization and believe Eclipse will enhance our Linux development | |
tool product offerings. Intel’s deep knowledge of processor | |
architecture and tools technology will enable us to participate | |
in enhancing Eclipse for the next generation of development tools."</p> | |
<p>MontaVista<br> | |
"The rapid and broad adoption of Eclipse technology leverages | |
the immense resources of the Open Source community, as does Linux, | |
for the benefit of software developers worldwide," commented | |
Jim Ready, chief executive officer and president of MontaVista Software. | |
"MontaVista Software has adopted Eclipse as the strategic development | |
framework, benefiting our customers, and proudly demonstrates our | |
commitment to Eclipse through our membership in the new independent | |
entity, and with our contributions to Eclipse technology.”</p> | |
<p>QNX Software Systems<br> | |
"QNX is proud to be a driving force behind Eclipse since its | |
inception," said Dan Dodge, chief executive officer of QNX | |
Software Systems Ltd. "With a seat on the board as a strategic | |
developer member, we are reinforcing and extending our commitment | |
to the goals of seamless tool integration and advancement of best-in-class | |
tooling for embedded software development."</p> | |
<p>SAP<br> | |
"As a founding member of the new independent entity and an | |
early adopter of Eclipse technology in our SAP NetWeaver Developer | |
Studio, we are pleased to serve on the newly formed Eclipse Board | |
of Directors," said Michael Bechauf, vice president NetWeaver | |
Standards. "SAP has taken a very active role in promoting the | |
Eclipse open source tools platform and we look forward to contributing | |
to its continued success. Participation in the earliest development | |
phases of Eclipse has allowed our customers to leverage the Eclipse | |
ecosystem. The momentum Eclipse has gained will help our customers | |
and partners benefit from a more rapid development of the platform | |
with increased support from a more diverse ecosystem."</p> | |
<p>Serena Software:<br> | |
"We are excited to participate in the new Eclipse as a strategic | |
consumer,” said Boris Kapitanski, vice president of Strategic | |
Technology at Serena Software. “Eclipse is becoming a very | |
attractive platform for a variety of companies, due mostly to its | |
highly integrated nature. Our goal is to make Eclipse even more | |
usable and robust by extending its capabilities from a development | |
platform to a complete application lifecycle support environment | |
to attract more business, marketing, and technical users to the | |
Eclipse community."</p> | |
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<td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Announced | |
Eclipse Add-in Providers</font></b></td> | |
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<td><P>Advanced Systems Concepts<br> | |
Borland<br> | |
Candle Corporation<br> | |
CanyonBlue<br> | |
Catalyst Systems Corporation<br> | |
CollabNet<br> | |
Embarcadero Technologies<br> | |
ETRI<br> | |
Exadel<br> | |
Fujitsu<br> | |
Genuitec<br> | |
Hitachi Software<br> | |
ILOG<br> | |
INNOOPRACT<br> | |
Instantiations, Inc.<br> | |
Logic Library<br> | |
M7 Corporation<br> | |
Metanology Corporation<br> | |
Micro Focus<br> | |
MKS<br> | |
Novell<br> | |
Optena Corporation<br> | |
Oracle<br> | |
PalmSource<br> | |
Parasoft Corporation<br> | |
QA Systems<br> | |
Red Hat<br> | |
SAS<br> | |
Scapa Technologies Limited<br> | |
SilverMark<br> | |
SlickEdit<br> | |
Teamstudio<br> | |
Telelogic<br> | |
Tensilica<br> | |
TimeSys<br> | |
Unisys<br> | |
VA Software, Inc.<br> | |
Wasabi Systems<br> | |
webMethods<br> | |
Wind River<br> | |
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<td> <P> Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around royalty-free | |
technology and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse | |
based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, | |
multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in | |
based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize | |
software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and exploiting | |
core integration technology, tool producers can leverage platform | |
reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new development | |
technology. 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, OSx and Windows based systems. A full description | |
of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design | |
and use of the Eclipse Platform are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">http://www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> | |
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<td> <p>Barbara Patterson<br> | |
Patterson and Associates<br> | |
480-488-6909<br> | |
<a href="mailto:%20barbara@patterson.com">barbara@patterson.com</a></p></td> | |
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<P>Some components of Eclipse may be governed by license terms other | |
than the CPL. </P> | |
<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.</P> | |
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