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Mike Milinkovich Named Eclipse's Executive Director</b></span></b></h1> | |
<P>OTTAWA, CANADA - June 1, 2004 - The Eclipse Board of Directors today | |
named Mike Milinkovich executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, effective | |
June 1. Milinkovich's broad experience in business development, hands-on | |
knowledge of object-oriented technology and responsiveness to the needs | |
of the developer community led to his selection. Milinkovich previously | |
served as vice president of OracleAS Technical Services at Oracle Corporation. | |
During his more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, | |
he demonstrated solid executive leadership, fulfilling both technical | |
and business roles.<br> | |
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<P>"I see my role as broadening the Eclipse open-source project and | |
continuing the rapid growth of the Eclipse ecosystem," said Mike | |
Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse. "It is my goal that Eclipse | |
continues to be a focal point for open-source innovation in the software | |
industry."<br> | |
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<P>Announcing this appointment, board member Jonathan Khazam, general manager | |
of Intel Corporation's Software Products Division, said, "Mike's | |
experience and leadership skills will help assure continued growth for | |
Eclipse, providing a solid basis for tools innovation within this budding | |
ecosystem. The Eclipse Board is confident Mike will do an outstanding | |
job building on the success Eclipse has seen to date."<br> | |
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<P>Milinkovich's initial priorities will include the following tasks:<br> | |
* Building the membership of the Eclipse Foundation and expanding the | |
ecosystem of users and contributors.<br> | |
* Ensuring a successful launch of the Eclipse 3.0 release in early summer | |
2004. <br> | |
* Establishing a solid foundation for the new open WebTools project, which | |
extends Eclipse to server-side Java.<br> | |
* Forming the Eclipse Management Organization and supervising the requirements, | |
planning and architecture councils.</p> | |
<P>His leadership will be critical to establishing, extending and implementing | |
the Eclipse roadmap and engaging with open-source projects, commercial | |
development organizations, consumers, academic and research communities, | |
standard bodies and individuals to grow the Eclipse ecosystem.<br> | |
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<P>Milinkovich has held key management positions at Oracle, WebGain, The | |
Object People and Object Technology International Inc. (which subsequently | |
became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM), assuming responsibility for | |
development, product management, marketing, strategic planning, finance | |
and business development.<br> | |
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<P>Milinkovich earned his Master of Science degree in Information and Systems | |
Sciences and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University in | |
Ottawa, Canada.<br> | |
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<P>"With constitution of our founding Board of Directors, Eclipse is now | |
traveling on the industry-neutral path that is critical for integration | |
technology," said Skip McGaughey, spokesperson for Eclipse. "This launches | |
the most significant step forward in the evolution of Eclipse as an | |
organization. For the Open Source development community we're establishing a | |
support base that will strengthen the projects and expand a powerful | |
reusable architecture. For commercial and academic users of Eclipse | |
technology, this means a more open management process and improved choices | |
in a stable and reliable environment."</p> | |
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<P> Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse | |
platform into open source, Eclipse is now incorporated as an independent, | |
not-for-profit organization in Delaware. A vibrant open eco-system | |
has formed around royalty-free Eclipse technology, a universal development | |
platform. Eclipse technology gives developers freedom of choice | |
in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse | |
provides an award winning 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. Release distribution | |
downloads, 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" target="_blank">http://www.eclipse.org</a>.<br> | |
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