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| Momentum Builds as Eclipse Eco-System Grows</b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <LI>Consortium Grows to 30 Members in First Year</LI> | |
| <LI>Three New Open Source Projects Form</LI> | |
| <LI>Download Requests Top 3.1 million</LI> | |
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| <P>December 16, 2002 - Today, the Eclipse Consortium announced that it has | |
| welcomed thirteen new supporting member companies and organizations and | |
| that it is launching four new open-source projects for tools and technology | |
| implementation: COBOL, Project Hyades for Automated Software Quality, | |
| the Eclipse Modeling Framework and the Koi Project. This adds to the momentum | |
| that Eclipse has seen with over 3.1 million download requests logged from | |
| over 125 countries in its first year. A worldwide "eco-system" of tools | |
| providers and consumers is forming around the Eclipse Platform, an open | |
| universal tools integration platform for multi-language, multi-platform | |
| and multi-vendor choice. Eclipse makes it easier for technology producers | |
| and consumers to create, integrate and use integrated software tools, | |
| saving developers time and money. </p> | |
| <p>Eclipse is now supported by providers of a broad range of development | |
| technologies including specialists in modeling, code generation, metadata | |
| management, testing, embedded computing, enterprise middleware, collaboration, | |
| services, research and application systems vendors. The thirteen new member | |
| companies and organization that have joined the Eclipse Consortium since | |
| September include: AltoWeb, Catalyst Systems, Flashline, Hewlett Packard, | |
| ETRI (the Korean information technology research institute), MKS Software, | |
| Oracle, Parasoft, SAP, SlickEdit, Teamstudio, Timesys and OMG, the Object | |
| Management Group. They join members: Fujitsu, Hitachi, Ltd., Instantiations, | |
| Inc., MontaVista Software, Scapa Technologies Limited, Serena Software, | |
| Sybase, Telelogic, Trans-Enterprise Integration Corp. and founding members | |
| Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, RedHat, | |
| SuSE, and TogetherSoft in providing ongoing support for Eclipse open-source | |
| projects.</p> | |
| <p>Eclipse is structured in open-source projects supported by member companies | |
| and individuals that freely contribute support, technology and skill. | |
| The four new open-source projects are forming to extend the core Eclipse | |
| Platform with tools, frameworks and reusable technology for key development | |
| areas. These projects include:</p> | |
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| <li>Tools for developing in the COBOL Language, based upon a donation | |
| from Fujitsu</li> | |
| <li>The Eclipse Modeling Framework - a model driven metadata | |
| management framework based upon OMG's Model Driven Architecture, with | |
| participation from IBM, Rational, and Togethersoft</li> | |
| <li>Project Hyades, | |
| a new framework and reusable technology supporting deployment of Automated | |
| Software Quality (test and trace) tools led by IBM, Scapa Technologies, | |
| Telelogic and Parasoft</li> | |
| <li>Koi Project - a new infrastructure supporting | |
| collaborative development activities between team members led by Instantiations, | |
| Inc. </li> | |
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| <p>A growing number of offerings "Powered by Eclipse Technology" are now | |
| available from member companies like Catalyst (OpenMake), Flashline (CMEE), | |
| IBM (WebSphere Studio), Instantiations (CodePro Studio), MERANT (PVCS), | |
| ParaSoft (Jtest), QNX Software Systems (Momentics), RATIONAL (XDE; | |
| ClearCase), Teamstudio (Analyzer for Java), Telelogic (Synergy) and others. | |
| Embarcadero, Genuitec, Interwoven, Junit, MacroMedia, MKS, Parasoft, | |
| Sitraka, StarBase, Versant, and Versata have introduced commercially | |
| available Eclipse based offerings. </p> | |
| <p>Full details of the Eclipse Consortium, open-source community, The Eclipse | |
| Platform and royalty-free downloads are available at http://www.eclipse.org</p> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
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| <td> Eclipse is an open source eco-system of royalty-free technology and a | |
| universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give | |
| developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, | |
| multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse delivers a plug-in based | |
| framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and use software tools, | |
| saving time and money. By collaborating and sharing core integration | |
| technology, tool producers can concentrate on their areas of expertise and | |
| the creation of new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is | |
| written | |
| in the Java(tm) 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® and Windows® based systems. | |
| Full details of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the | |
| design of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org.</td> | |
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| <div align="center">Barbara Stewart<br> | |
| Patterson and Associates<br> | |
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| barbara@patterson.com </div> | |
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