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 		<h2 ALIGN="CENTER"><strong>ECLIPSE COMMUNITY DELIVERS ON SCHEDULE WITH THE RELEASE OF
 TEN OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS</strong></h2>
 		<ul>
 		<li>Callisto Demonstrates the Predictability of Open Source Software Development for Large Scale Projects</li>
 		</ul>
 		<p><strong>OTTAWA, CANADA  June 26, 2006 </strong>The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of 10
 		Eclipse open source projects. This release event, named Callisto, is one of the largest multi-project
 		releases undertaken by an open source community. The roll-out of Callisto marks the third consecutive year
 		Eclipse has shipped a major release on schedule.  </p>

 		<p>Callisto was a major undertaking for the Eclipse community, involving 10 different project teams, 260
 		committers and over 7 million lines of code. Demonstrating the multi-vendor and global nature of the Eclipse
 		community, 15 different ISVs contributed open source developers to work on the projects included in
 		Callisto. Those developers were located around the globe in 12 different countries; Canada, US, Finland,
 		Turkey, China, France, Russia, Czech Republic, India, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.  </p>

 		</p>Callisto demonstrates that the open source development model is very effective in delivering a platform
 		for software development, says Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation. Last year, when
 		we first started the Callisto release, it was a risk to try to bring together so many projects. Now the
 		Eclipse projects have proven that a multi-project, multi-vendor, distributed community is very effective in
 		shipping software on a predictable schedule.</p>

 		<p>A major emphasis of Callisto is to make it easier for organizations, such as ISVs and enterprise
 		developers, to adopt Eclipse as the platform for application development. Adopters are able to benefit
 		from Eclipses modular architecture to use a variety of different Eclipse projects to build their
 		applications. Callisto provides a single release event that synchronizes version compatibility and
 		schedules. ISVs planning to use the projects in the Callisto release include Actuate, AvantSoft, BEA,
 		Borland, Business Objects, IBM, ILOG, Innoopract,  Intalio,  Intervoice, Klocwork, Lattix, LogicLibrary,
 		Lombardi, Lynxworks, Oracle, QNX and Scapa Technologies.  </p>

 		<p>Callisto includes major functional release of the following Eclipse projects:
 		<ul><br>
 			<li>Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) 2.1
 			<li>C/C++ IDE (CDT) 3.1
 			<li>Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0
 			<li>Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.2
 			<li>Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) 3.2
 			<li>Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)1.0
 			<li>Eclipse Project 3.2
 			<li>Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) 4.2,
 			<li>Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.5
 			<li>Visual Editor (VE) 1.2.
 		</ul>
 		</p>

 		<p>Some of the technology highlights of the project releases include:
 			<ul><br>
 			<li><p><strong>New Standalone OSGi Runtime:</strong> Developers now have the flexibility to use the
 			Eclipse OSGI runtime as a standalone framework.  The OSGi runtime, part of the Eclipse Equinox
 			project, is the foundation of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. As a standalone framework it will
 			enable developers to use it in a variety of application architectures, including embedded, client and
 			server applications.</p<

 			<li><p><strong>Web Services Tooling: </strong>Offering of tools to simplify the creation, deployment
 			and profile of Web services. New tools will be offered in the Web Tools Project (WTP) and in Test and
 			Performance Tools Platform (TPTP).</p>

 			<li><p><strong>New Platform Support for OSX on Intel and preview of Windows Vista:</strong> Eclipse
 			developers can now build applications that run on OSX on Intel and Windows Vista. </p>

 			<li><p><strong>Release 1.0 of DTP and GMF:</strong> Data Tools Platform (DTP) delivers the frameworks
 			required for building data-centric applications. Graphical Modeling Framework makes it easy to create
 			applications that incorporate graphical editors.</p>
 			</ul>

 		<p>The projects in the Callisto release will be available for download June 30, 2006. Please visit
 		<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/callisto">www.eclipse.org/callisto</a> for more information.</p>

 		<p><strong>About the Eclipse Foundation</strong><br />
 		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">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p>
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 		<br /><br /><strong>Press Contact</strong><br>
 		John Moran/Laura Ackerman<br>
 		Schwartz Communications<br>
 		781-684-0770<br>
 		eclipse@schwartz-pr.com <br>
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	TEN OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS</strong></h2>
	<ul>
	<li>Callisto Demonstrates the Predictability of Open Source Software Development for Large Scale Projects</li>
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	<p><strong>OTTAWA, CANADA June 26, 2006 </strong>The Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of 10
	Eclipse open source projects. This release event, named Callisto, is one of the largest multi-project
	releases undertaken by an open source community. The roll-out of Callisto marks the third consecutive year
	Eclipse has shipped a major release on schedule. </p>

	<p>Callisto was a major undertaking for the Eclipse community, involving 10 different project teams, 260
	committers and over 7 million lines of code. Demonstrating the multi-vendor and global nature of the Eclipse
	community, 15 different ISVs contributed open source developers to work on the projects included in
	Callisto. Those developers were located around the globe in 12 different countries; Canada, US, Finland,
	Turkey, China, France, Russia, Czech Republic, India, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. </p>

	</p>Callisto demonstrates that the open source development model is very effective in delivering a platform
	for software development, says Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation. Last year, when
	we first started the Callisto release, it was a risk to try to bring together so many projects. Now the
	Eclipse projects have proven that a multi-project, multi-vendor, distributed community is very effective in
	shipping software on a predictable schedule.</p>

	<p>A major emphasis of Callisto is to make it easier for organizations, such as ISVs and enterprise
	developers, to adopt Eclipse as the platform for application development. Adopters are able to benefit
	from Eclipses modular architecture to use a variety of different Eclipse projects to build their
	applications. Callisto provides a single release event that synchronizes version compatibility and
	schedules. ISVs planning to use the projects in the Callisto release include Actuate, AvantSoft, BEA,
	Borland, Business Objects, IBM, ILOG, Innoopract, Intalio, Intervoice, Klocwork, Lattix, LogicLibrary,
	Lombardi, Lynxworks, Oracle, QNX and Scapa Technologies. </p>

	<p>Callisto includes major functional release of the following Eclipse projects:
	<ul><br>
	<li>Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) 2.1
	<li>C/C++ IDE (CDT) 3.1
	<li>Data Tools Platform (DTP) 1.0
	<li>Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) 2.2
	<li>Graphical Editor Framework (GEF) 3.2
	<li>Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF)1.0
	<li>Eclipse Project 3.2
	<li>Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) 4.2,
	<li>Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.5
	<li>Visual Editor (VE) 1.2.
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>Some of the technology highlights of the project releases include:
	<ul><br>
	<li><p><strong>New Standalone OSGi Runtime:</strong> Developers now have the flexibility to use the
	Eclipse OSGI runtime as a standalone framework. The OSGi runtime, part of the Eclipse Equinox
	project, is the foundation of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. As a standalone framework it will
	enable developers to use it in a variety of application architectures, including embedded, client and
	server applications.</p<

	<li><p><strong>Web Services Tooling: </strong>Offering of tools to simplify the creation, deployment
	and profile of Web services. New tools will be offered in the Web Tools Project (WTP) and in Test and
	Performance Tools Platform (TPTP).</p>

	<li><p><strong>New Platform Support for OSX on Intel and preview of Windows Vista:</strong> Eclipse
	developers can now build applications that run on OSX on Intel and Windows Vista. </p>

	<li><p><strong>Release 1.0 of DTP and GMF:</strong> Data Tools Platform (DTP) delivers the frameworks
	required for building data-centric applications. Graphical Modeling Framework makes it easy to create
	applications that incorporate graphical editors.</p>
	</ul>

	<p>The projects in the Callisto release will be available for download June 30, 2006. Please visit
	<a href="http://www.eclipse.org/callisto">www.eclipse.org/callisto</a> for more information.</p>

	<p><strong>About the Eclipse Foundation</strong><br />
	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">www.eclipse.org</a>.</p>
	<br />
	<center># # #</center>
	<br />
	All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
	<br /><br /><strong>Press Contact</strong><br>
	John Moran/Laura Ackerman<br>
	Schwartz Communications<br>
	781-684-0770<br>
	eclipse@schwartz-pr.com <br>
	<br>
	<br>

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