elections/2012/dupuis.xml

<boardmember id="dupuis" type="addin">

	<name>Christian Dupuis</name>

	<title>Director, R&amp;D, VMware</title>

	<image>dupuis.jpg</image>

	<email>cdupuis@vmware.com</email>

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	<vision>  <![CDATA[
	<p>Over the past several years I've been an active user of Eclipse technologies and 
	used the Eclipse platform to build open source and commercial solutions like Spring IDE or the SpringSource 
	Tool Suite. During my extensive experience in open source development, I have come to recognize the unique 
	value that the Eclipse Foundation brings to the intersection of open source and corporate software development. 
	In conjunction with a large, active and vocal community, the Eclipse Foundation had helped to define the primacy 
	of the developer as an agent of change in the world of enterprise software.
	</p>
	<p>Within recent times we've seen the rise of the Cloud, an ever increasing number of mobile devices accessing 
	the internet and an insane amount of data being captured each day. Without question these developments affect 
	the ways developers are building the next generation of applications; a completely new set of application 
	styles, frameworks and tools is emerging to support these new demands.
	</p>
	<p>This poses a challenge for Eclipse and its ecosystem; there are certain areas in which the Eclipse 
	ecosystem could put additional focus to maintain its momentum and market leading position. In case 
	the Eclipse community elects me to the Board of Directors, I would like to help making this a reality.
	</p>
	<p>My vision for Eclipse in 2012:
	</p>
	<ul>
	<li>Web + Mobile: we are seeing the growing importance of HTML5 and JavaScript 
	in modern web and mobile application development. There is a tremendous opportunity 
	in this space with a wide and growing addressable market, both in terms of developers 
	and commercial vendors that will potentially build on top of Eclipse technologies. As 
	a board member, I will help ensure that Eclipse gets the necessary resources to extend 
	the Eclipse stack and become a viable option for web and mobile application development.
	</li>
	<li>Cloud: many people may see Cloud as a buzzword. But while working at VMware I have 
	come to see that the Cloud is a reality through the community interest in the open source 
	Cloud Foundry platform. While I was working on the Eclipse integration for Cloud Foundry it 
	became clear that there is a lot that Eclipse could offer as part of the platform to support 
	Cloud platforms and vendors.
		<ul>
		<li>Eclipse, through the WTP project, managed to build a platform for traditional 
		application server vendors to extend for their server runtimes. This has led to a 
		flourishing ecosystem of providers for nearly every application server in the market. 
		I think a similar effort is required to provide extension mechanisms for cloud providers 
		to plug in their PaaS and IaaS offerings. This goes beyond simple deploy-start-stop scenarios 
		and will include, for example, provisioning and configuring platform services in a Cloud environment.
		</li>
		<li>More and more components of the development lifecycle are moving into the Cloud. I think 
		it is only natural for cloud providers to host editing or IDE solutions in close proximity 
		to the application code. There is a unique opportunity to work with the various cloud providers to 
		position Orion as the editing solution of choice in those environments.
		</li>
		</ul>
	</li>
	</ul>]]> </vision>

	<bio> <![CDATA[
	<p>Christian Dupuis is Director, R&D for the SpringSource division of VMware with 
	responsibilities for the complete Spring project offerings, including the Spring Framework. 
	From the very early days of Spring, Christian worked with the Spring team around Rod Johnson 
	and others in the open source space. In 2004 Christian co-founded the well known Spring IDE 
	open source project that brings development tools for the Spring projects to the Eclipse platform. 
	</p>
	<p>More recently Christian was responsible for the implementation of the Cloud Foundry Integration for 
	Eclipse which gives developers easy access to VMware's multi-language, multi-framework PaaS. He is 
	also actively involved in moving the SpringSource dm Server Tools into Eclipse Virgo project.
	</p>
	<p>Christian has been developing Java enterprise applications since 1997. During this time, Christian 
	designed complex software architectures with a focus on multi-tiered, web-based, client-server 
	applications using enterprise Java technologies and the Spring Framework. Prior to joining SpringSource, 
	Christian worked as consultant and project manager for one of the leading global technology consulting 
	firms in the financial sector in central Europe.
	</p>]]>
	</bio>

	<affiliation> <![CDATA[ 
	SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc.
	]]>
	</affiliation>

		
</boardmember>