| <boardmember id="twilliams" type="addin"> | |
| <name> Todd Williams </name> | |
| <title> Vice President - Technology </title> | |
| <image> twilliams.jpg </image> | |
| <email> todd.williams@genuitec.com </email> | |
| <phone> 972-691-5717 </phone> | |
| <contact> <![CDATA[ | |
| Genuitec, LLC<br/> | |
| 2505 Powderhorn Drive<br/> | |
| Plano, Texas 75025 | |
| ]]> | |
| </contact> | |
| <eclipse_affiliation> <![CDATA[ | |
| I’ve been serving as Genuitec’s Eclipse Foundation representative since early 2003 and as an elected board member for both 2004 and 2005. | |
| Currently, I serve as the chairman of the Foundation’s membership committee and am also a member of the Web Tools Project’s requirements group. | |
| For the past four years I’ve been constantly evangelizing Eclipse technology through numerous consulting opportunities, speaking engagements | |
| and magazine articles, including one article written in early 2002 that became the genesis of the Eclipse rich client platform. | |
| More detail on what I’ve been doing lately with Eclipse can be found by Googling: "Todd Williams" Eclipse | |
| ]]> </eclipse_affiliation> | |
| <vision> <![CDATA[ | |
| Executive Summary | |
| <ul> | |
| <li>Emphasize the requirements of the add-in provider community over other ecosystem participants</li> | |
| <li>Advocate the commercial interests of add-in providers so Eclipse continues to be a sound investment</li> | |
| <li>Provide time to adjust to innovations by promoting managed, predictable development cycles</li> | |
| <li>Protect add-in provider value by emphasizing flexible, extensible frameworks over commercially competitive tools</li> | |
| <li>Promote the expansion of Eclipse into new and emerging market segments to engender new business opportunities</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p> | |
| By most measures, Eclipse is already one of the most successful software technologies ever created. But why is Eclipse different from other | |
| similar efforts that have gone before it and failed? And, what must we do to preserve Eclipse’s uniqueness so that it can to continue to flourish? | |
| The answers to these questions should continue to drive the actions of the Foundation.</p> | |
| <p> | |
| In my opinion, the success of Eclipse stems from the unique, managed balance between the needs of its three diverse communities: the committers, | |
| the add-in providers, and the end users. To gain critical mass, Eclipse began by catering to the needs of the end users. But, now that there are | |
| hundreds of products in the add-in ecosystem and an explosion of interest in the rich client platform, the makeup of the Eclipse community is | |
| rapidly changing and its needs will continue to change.</p> | |
| <p> | |
| As Eclipse evolves, we must continue to delicately adjust our focus to maintain our community synergy. | |
| For example, if we were to cater to the desires of the end users too heavily, | |
| we could actually remove the incentive to becoming an add-in provider or adopting Eclipse as a platform entirely. | |
| Since the initial investment required to build and market a product is so large, | |
| commercial product investment would simply be seen as too | |
| risky given that our target markets would quickly be commoditized by our own platform. | |
| To prevent this self-commoditization, we must proactively manage the pace, transparency, and | |
| predictibility of our innovations. However, to remain viable for any of us in the long-term, | |
| the Foundation must now increase its efforts around creating and fostering commercial opportunity for its members. | |
| As a result, strongly encouraging the Foundation to focus on our shared commerical objectives will continue to be my primary concern going forward.</p> | |
| <p> | |
| Eclipse is constantly expanding, evolving, and surprising all of us. By embracing its evolution and further enhancing our market synergy, | |
| I believe we can continue to expand the Eclipse ecosystem in all of its current segments while creating commercial opportunity in several | |
| diverse new markets. Software visionary Alan Kay once said "The best way to predict the future is to invent it". | |
| I agree, and that’s what I believe we’re doing right now at Eclipse. </p> | |
| ]]> </vision> | |
| <bio> <![CDATA[ | |
| At Genuitec I run both the R&D Lab and Consulting Practice for Eclipse Technology. These dual roles provide me with a unique | |
| perspective on innovation and its commercial applications with Eclipse technology. Additionally, I have over twenty years of experience in | |
| the development of computing infrastructures, large scale distributed software architectures, and the optimization of | |
| development processes, techniques, and tools. | |
| ]]> </bio> | |
| <affiliation> <![CDATA[ | |
| <p>Genuitec L.L.C. is a leading provider of innovative Eclipse-based technology products, training, and consulting services. | |
| Genuitec’s flagship product, MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench, is a full-featured J2EE IDE that enhances Eclipse with hundreds | |
| of addtional features that enable highly productive enterprise Java development. A MyEclipse subscription is available for | |
| $29.95 / developer / year and includes all software updates and technical support. </p> | |
| <p> | |
| Genuitec also offers training and expert consulting and development services for the Eclipse SDK and Rich Client Platforms. | |
| Genuitec joined the Eclipse Foundation early in 2003 and actively participates in steering the strategy and direction of the | |
| Eclipse Foundation as a member of its board of directors. Genuitec L.L.C. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. </p> | |
| ]]> </affiliation> | |
| </boardmember> |