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<name>Todd Williams</name> | |
<title>Vice President - Technology</title> | |
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<email>todd.williams@genuitec.com </email> | |
<phone>972-691-5717</phone> | |
<contact> | |
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Genuitec, LLC<br> | |
2221 Justin Road #119-340<br> | |
Flower Mound, TX 75028 | |
USA | |
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<p>I've have been an active board member of the Eclipse Foundation since early | |
2003, initially as the representative for Genuitec LLC, (a founding member of | |
the Eclipse Foundation) and more recently as an elected Add-in Provider representative. | |
Additionally, I also serve on the Foundation's Membership Committee and as a | |
member of the Web Tools Project requirements group. Genuitec also | |
leads the Maynstall project and remains involved in the Phoenix project due to Genuitec's | |
founding role in the EPIC Alliance, which built and then | |
donated Eclipse Plug-in Central to the Foundation.</p> | |
<p>For the past six years I've been constantly evangelizing Eclipse | |
technology and providing thought leadership through numerous consulting | |
opportunities, speaking engagements, member recruitment and magazine | |
articles. My next talk will be at EclipseCon where I'll | |
present "Making Money with Eclipse: A Survivor's Guide" as part of the business track. | |
Much more detail on my Eclipse activities can be found by Googling: Todd Williams Eclipse | |
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<p>Executive Summary</p> | |
<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>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>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. | |
<p>To prevent this self-commoditization, we must proactively manage the pace, transparency, and | |
predictability of our innovations in order to give our members time to adjust their business models appropriately. | |
However, to remain viable for any of us in the long-term, we must also continue to increase our efforts around creating | |
commercial opportunity for our members while we foster innovation within the projects, both of which will ensure that | |
the word "Eclipse" will always be perceived as a high-quality ingredient brand. | |
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<bio> | |
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As a co-founder of 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. | |
If interested, a more detailed bio can be found on Genuitec's website here: http://www.genuitec.com/about/leadership.html | |
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<affiliation> | |
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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 Web/J2EE/AJAX IDE that is used in | |
over 15,000 companies in 150 countries. | |
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 currently has an employee serving as an elected member of the board | |
of directors where he actively participates in the strategy development and direction of the organization. | |
Genuitec L.L.C. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Flower Mound, Texas. | |
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