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       <h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b>
         Eclipse Foundation Launches New Web Infrastructure to Support the Expanding Eclipse Community</b></span></b></h1>
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         <li>HP, IBM, Intel and Novell Contribute Technology Resources for Critical Upgrade</li>
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       <P>Ottawa, ON&mdash;June 1, 2005 -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced
         a major infrastructure upgrade of the Eclipse community web site (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org</a>).
         This upgrade was made possible through contributions of hardware and software
         from HP, IBM, Intel and Novell. Due to increased Web traffic and download
         rates among the burgeoning Eclipse open source community, Eclipse.org&rsquo;s
         web infrastructure has been redesigned to scale for growth and ensure
         high availability for the entire community. </p>

       <p>With approximately 1.2 million page views on an average day and 10 terabytes of data transferred per
 	  month, the previous infrastructure for the site was under a constant strain. As more companies join the
 	  Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse technologies gain adoption across the industry, it was clear that a major
 	   change to the infrastructure was necessary. A new product release of Eclipse-based open source
 	   projects, such as the upcoming Eclipse 3.1 Platform launch, could cause massive surges in traffic and
 	   bring downloads to a standstill. With the new architecture, throughput is greatly increased as are the
 	   expanded capabilities needed for periods of high traffic. </p>

       <p>&ldquo;As the membership of the Foundation and the usage of the technology continues to grow, the
 	  scale and complexity of our site has expanded dramatically,&rdquo; said Mike Milinkovich, executive
 	  director of the Eclipse Foundation. &ldquo;We thank HP, IBM, Intel and Novell &ndash; all active
 	  members and leaders in open source &ndash; for their generous contributions toward better serving the
 	  needs of the community. With their help, we can continue our commitment to support the broad array of
 	  open source development in the Eclipse ecosystem.&rdquo;</p>
       <p>HP, IBM, Intel and Novell contributed software, hardware and expertise to help the Eclipse Foundation build this new web infrastructure. </p>
       <p>HP contributed four new HP Integrity rx2600 servers, each equipped with two Intel&reg; Itanium&reg; 2 processors and 8GB of memory.</p>
       <p>Intel contributed eight 1.3GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 processors that were coupled with the servers
 	  contributed by HP. In addition to the processors, Intel IT also contributed their expertise in
 	  large-scale enterprise computing by providing valuable assistance with the architectural design
 	  and implementation of the scalable and highly-available new Eclipse computing infrastructure.</p>
       <p>IBM provided to the Foundation three IBM eServer p5 550 servers, each powered by four POWER5
 	  processors and 16G of memory. The company also provided resources to help Eclipse expand its
 	  memory and storage space. IBM contributed 24 36G disks and an IBM TotalStorage EXP Plus 320 with
 	  14 146G disks.</p>
       <p>Novell donated SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for Intel Itanium Processor Family and IBM
 	  POWER processors for the infrastructure, as well as technical support services. </p></td>
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             <P> Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an
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 			Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development
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 			 Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client
 			 applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology
 			 vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals
 			 extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.</p>
             <P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a> </p></td>
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	<h1 ALIGN="CENTER"><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Arial;"Times New Roman"'><b>
	Eclipse Foundation Launches New Web Infrastructure to Support the Expanding Eclipse Community</b></span></b></h1>
	<ul>
	<li>HP, IBM, Intel and Novell Contribute Technology Resources for Critical Upgrade</li>
	</ul>
	<P>Ottawa, ON—June 1, 2005 -- The Eclipse Foundation today announced
	a major infrastructure upgrade of the Eclipse community web site (<a href="http://www.eclipse.org" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org</a>).
	This upgrade was made possible through contributions of hardware and software
	from HP, IBM, Intel and Novell. Due to increased Web traffic and download
	rates among the burgeoning Eclipse open source community, Eclipse.org’s
	web infrastructure has been redesigned to scale for growth and ensure
	high availability for the entire community. </p>

	<p>With approximately 1.2 million page views on an average day and 10 terabytes of data transferred per
	month, the previous infrastructure for the site was under a constant strain. As more companies join the
	Eclipse Foundation and Eclipse technologies gain adoption across the industry, it was clear that a major
	change to the infrastructure was necessary. A new product release of Eclipse-based open source
	projects, such as the upcoming Eclipse 3.1 Platform launch, could cause massive surges in traffic and
	bring downloads to a standstill. With the new architecture, throughput is greatly increased as are the
	expanded capabilities needed for periods of high traffic. </p>

	<p>“As the membership of the Foundation and the usage of the technology continues to grow, the
	scale and complexity of our site has expanded dramatically,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive
	director of the Eclipse Foundation. “We thank HP, IBM, Intel and Novell – all active
	members and leaders in open source – for their generous contributions toward better serving the
	needs of the community. With their help, we can continue our commitment to support the broad array of
	open source development in the Eclipse ecosystem.”</p>
	<p>HP, IBM, Intel and Novell contributed software, hardware and expertise to help the Eclipse Foundation build this new web infrastructure. </p>
	<p>HP contributed four new HP Integrity rx2600 servers, each equipped with two Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and 8GB of memory.</p>
	<p>Intel contributed eight 1.3GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 processors that were coupled with the servers
	contributed by HP. In addition to the processors, Intel IT also contributed their expertise in
	large-scale enterprise computing by providing valuable assistance with the architectural design
	and implementation of the scalable and highly-available new Eclipse computing infrastructure.</p>
	<p>IBM provided to the Foundation three IBM eServer p5 550 servers, each powered by four POWER5
	processors and 16G of memory. The company also provided resources to help Eclipse expand its
	memory and storage space. IBM contributed 24 36G disks and an IBM TotalStorage EXP Plus 320 with
	14 146G disks.</p>
	<p>Novell donated SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for Intel Itanium Processor Family and IBM
	POWER processors for the infrastructure, as well as technical support services. </p></td>
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	<P> Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an
	extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software.
	Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development
	lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for
	Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client
	applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology
	vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals
	extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.</p>
	<P> The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/" target="_top">www.eclipse.org</a> </p></td>
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	<div align="center">Laura Ackerman <br>
	Schwartz Communications<br>
	781-684-0770<br>
	<a href="mailto:eclipse@schwartz-pr.com">eclipse@schwartz-pr.com</a></div>
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