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| <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b> | |
| Expanded Broad-Based Eclipse Initiative Delivers <br> | |
| Open Test and Performance Tools Platform</b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <li>Major Open-Source Collaboration in Testing, Tracing, Profiling and Monitoring</li> | |
| <li>Cross-Vendor, Cross-Platform, Cross-Lifecycle</li> | |
| <li>Open Platform and Extensible Exemplary Tooling</li> | |
| <li>Hyades Project Builds on and Extends the Existing </li> | |
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| <P>SAN FRANCISCO-August 2, 2004-Today the Eclipse Foundation announced the | |
| creation of a Test and Performance Tools Platform Top Level Project to | |
| provide an open-development platform supplying frameworks and services | |
| for test and performance tools that are used throughout the software lifecycle | |
| (testing, tracing/profiling, tuning, logging, monitoring, analysis, autonomics, | |
| administration, etc.). Also included in this platform are data collection | |
| services and user interfaces for tracing, test case execution, logging | |
| and statistical behavior in local or remote execution environments. In | |
| committing to lead the project, Intel Corporation makes a major resource | |
| contribution to the Eclipse Foundation and to the development of software | |
| within the project.</p> | |
| <P> "We are excited to contribute to the advancement that this Eclipse | |
| open-source initiative brings to the industry in the area of test and | |
| performance tooling," said Tyler Thessin, engineering manager for | |
| Intel Software Development Products and lead of the Eclipse Test and Performance | |
| Tools Project Management Committee. "This infrastructure--and the | |
| tools built upon it--provide significant capabilities and benefits to | |
| the software industry and will contribute to the continued success of | |
| Eclipse and the growth of the Eclipse ecosystem."</p> | |
| <P>This expanded initiative extends the Eclipse Hyades project which, over | |
| the last year and a half, has developed extensive Eclipse-based infrastructure | |
| and tooling for test and performance. "Hyades is one of the great | |
| achievements of the Eclipse Community," said Mike Milinkovich, recently | |
| appointed executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "In my new | |
| role, I will seek to ensure Hyades gets the level of exposure and adoption | |
| that it deserves."<br> | |
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| <P>The core interoperability layer continues to be developed in a project | |
| known as the Hyades Core Platform led by Intel. Three additional streams | |
| of activity have also been identified as projects within the Test and | |
| Performance Top Level Project: Hyades Testing, Hyades Tracing and Profiling, | |
| and Hyades Monitoring. </p> | |
| <P>"The involvement of Intel and other significant companies will ensure | |
| wider adoption of the open Hyades Core Platform as consensus architecture | |
| for innovative value-added products," said Dr Mike Norman, CEO of | |
| Scapa Technologies, who led the original Hyades project and now leads | |
| the Hyades Testing project. "For example, Intel will drive the adoption | |
| of the infrastructure to enable developers to harness the full power of | |
| Intel processors for applications."</p> | |
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| Serge Lucio, senior product manager at IBM Rational who currently leads | |
| both the Hyades Monitoring and the Hyades Tracing and Profiling Projects | |
| said, "IBM is committed both to developing the Hyades Core Platform | |
| and other elements of Eclipse Test and Performance software and to leveraging | |
| them across a broad spectrum of its products." | |
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| <P>SAP, Compuware and FOKUS continue to actively contribute to the Test | |
| and Performance project to provide a breadth of experience and a wide | |
| perspective to the team.</p> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
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| <P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation | |
| that hosts community based open-source projects. Eclipse creates | |
| royalty-free technology and a universal platform for development | |
| tools integration, modeling, testing and functionally-rich application | |
| construction. Eclipse based offerings give developers freedom of | |
| choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported | |
| environment. Eclipse delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework | |
| that makes it easier to create and integrate technology, saving | |
| time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration technology, | |
| technology providers can concentrate and focus on areas of expertise | |
| and differentiation. 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. | |
| Full details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting | |
| the design of the Eclipse Platform are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> | |
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| <p align="center">Janice Hughes<br> | |
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