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| Eclipse Names Founding Board of Directors</b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <LI>Board Expands to 12 Members as "Committer" and "Add-In Provider" Representatives | |
| are Elected<br> | |
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| <P>ASHEVILLE, NC-March 3, 2004-Four new members of the Eclipse Board of | |
| Directors, representing the organization's Open Source project community and | |
| commercial supporters, were announced today. Newly elected, Todd Williams | |
| (Genuitec, LLC), John Wiegand (Eclipse Project Lead, IBM); Rich Main (SAS), | |
| and Bjorn Freeman-Benson (University of Washington) join the board, which | |
| already includes Ronald Ingman (Ericsson), Michael J. Rank (Hewlett | |
| Packard), Dave Thomson (IBM), Jonathan Khazam (Intel), Jim Ready (MontaVista | |
| Software), Dan Dodge (QNX Software Systems Ltd.), Michael Bechauf (SAP AG) | |
| and Boris Kapitanski (Serena Software). This establishes the founding | |
| twelve-member Eclipse Board of Directors, responsible for approving Eclipse | |
| strategy, development roadmaps and release plans, and establishing | |
| organization policy.</p> | |
| <P>"Genuitec is very pleased to be able to continue our strategic involvement | |
| with the Eclipse Foundation," said Todd Williams, vice president of | |
| technology for Genuitec. Through our membership in the Board of Directors, | |
| we will work to expand the Eclipse ecosystem in its current market segments | |
| (integrated development environment users, add-in providers and rich client | |
| platform adopters) while fostering its adoption in additional market | |
| segments."</p> | |
| <P>Bjorn Freeman-Benson said, "I'm honored to have been elected by the | |
| committers as one of their two representatives on the Board. I look forward | |
| to working with the rest of the Board to expand the Eclipse community by | |
| encouraging low-overhead ways for people to contribute."</p> | |
| <P>"The rapid and broad adoption of Eclipse technology is proof to a very | |
| strong market demand for open standards and common platforms worldwide," | |
| said Jim Ready, chief executive officer and president, MontaVista Software. | |
| "I am honored to serve on the Eclipse Board of Directors. MontaVista | |
| Software has proudly demonstrated our commitment to Eclipse, by adopting it | |
| as a strategic development framework, through its founding membership in | |
| Eclipse, and with ongoing contributions to Eclipse technology. We continue | |
| to look forward to being part of this important initiative."</p> | |
| <P>"I look forward to serving on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors," | |
| said Rich Main, director of Java development environments at SAS. "SAS is | |
| committed to working with the Eclipse community to strengthen the growth and | |
| adoption of Eclipse. This will be a critical year for the Eclipse | |
| Foundation as we strive to move from an organization that is focused | |
| primarily on the development community to one that is an increasingly | |
| attractive option for end-user consumers, as well. We intend to work in | |
| partnership with the entire Eclipse community to make this transition as | |
| smooth and successful as possible."</p> | |
| <P>Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform | |
| into Open Source, Eclipse has now been incorporated as an independent, | |
| not-for-profit organization. Tangible support from 58 member companies | |
| enables Eclipse to host and nurture 19 Open Source projects that originated | |
| in commercial and academic contexts. In just 2 years, this community has | |
| professionally delivered the most broadly deployed and fastest growing | |
| universal tools integration platform in history. All technology and source | |
| code provided within this fast-growing ecosystem remains openly available | |
| and royalty-free.</p> | |
| <P>Worldwide, Eclipse membership represents individual contributors and large | |
| and small companies with interests ranging from embedded computing and Linux | |
| through traditional enterprise class information technology. </p> | |
| <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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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
| Eclipse</font></b></td> | |
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| <P> A vibrant open eco-system has formed around royalty-free Eclipse | |
| technology, 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 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. 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, Mac OS X and Windows-based | |
| systems. 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>.</p> | |
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| <p align="center">Barbara Stewart<br> | |
| Patterson and Associates<br> | |
| 480-488-6909<br> | |
| <a href="mailto:barbara@patterson.com">barbara@patterson.com</a></p> | |
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