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| Eclipse Forms Independent Organization</b></span></b></h1> | |
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| <LI>Membership Launches Not-For-Profit Corporation to Implement and Share | |
| Technology</LI> | |
| <LI> Establishes Scalable Governance Model for Open Source Projects and | |
| Commercial Participation<br> | |
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| <P> ECLIPSECON, ANAHEIM, CA—February 2, 2004—The Eclipse Board | |
| of Stewards today announced Eclipse’s reorganization into a not-for-profit | |
| corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the | |
| Eclipse Platform into Open Source, Eclipse is now an independent body | |
| that will drive the platform’s evolution to benefit the providers | |
| of software development offerings and end-users. All technology and source | |
| code provided to this fast-growing ecosystem will remain openly available | |
| and royalty-free.<br> | |
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| <P>With this change, a full-time Eclipse management organization is being | |
| established to engage with commercial developers and consumers, academic | |
| and research institutions, standards bodies, tool interoperability groups | |
| and individual developers, plus coordinate Open Source projects. To maintain | |
| a reliable and accessible development roadmap, a set of councils–Requirements, | |
| Architecture and Planning–will guide the development done by Eclipse | |
| Open Source projects. With the support of over 50 member companies, Eclipse | |
| already hosts 4 major Open Source projects that include 19 subprojects.<br> | |
| </p> | |
| <P> To oversee and staff this new management organization, Eclipse has established | |
| a Board of Directors drawn from four classes of membership: Strategic | |
| Developers, Strategic Consumers, Add-in Providers and Open Source project | |
| leaders. Strategic </p> | |
| <p>Developers and Strategic Consumers hold seats on this Board, as do representatives | |
| elected by Add-in Providers and Open Source project leaders. Strategic | |
| Developers, Strategic Consumers and Add-in Providers contribute annual | |
| dues. The founding Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers are Ericsson, | |
| HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, QNX, SAP and Serena Software. In | |
| the coming weeks, the Board will announce its selection of a full-time | |
| Executive Director to lead the Eclipse management organization.<br> | |
| </p> | |
| <p>"As mainstream IS organizations begin implementing and deploying | |
| service-oriented architectures like J2EE and .NET into new computing environments, | |
| having standardized, integrated and interoperable technologies will become | |
| increasingly important to their success. Industry consortiums like Eclipse | |
| and NetBeans that implement tools based upon standards from groups like | |
| the Object Management Group (OMG) and Java Tools Community (JTC) are well-suited | |
| to address these types of problems–especially if the groups can | |
| coordinate their efforts." says Gartner vice-president and research | |
| director, Michael Blechar.<br> | |
| </p> | |
| <p>According to Skip McGaughey, spokesperson for Eclipse, “This is | |
| a significant step forward in the evolution of Eclipse. For the Open Source | |
| development community, we’re establishing a strong support base | |
| that will strengthen the projects and expand a powerful reusable architecture. | |
| This creates long-term opportunities for reuse, interoperation and innovation | |
| that enable both providers and consumers to take development tool technology | |
| to the next level in functionality integration and usability.” <br> | |
| </p> | |
| <p>With more than 18 million download requests recorded since its inception, | |
| adoption of the Eclipse platform continues to accelerate. Development | |
| environment providers value its powerful reusable architecture that provides | |
| integration “by construction,” reduces duplication of effort | |
| and creates new opportunities for innovation and differentiation. Add-in | |
| providers are attracted by the ease with which seamless integration can | |
| be achieved as well as the large business opportunity represented by this | |
| growing ecosystem. End users appreciate the common look-and-feel and off-the-shelf | |
| integration across a large selection of independently developed offerings. | |
| With reorganization, Eclipse’s members have established the strategic, | |
| operational and financial means to effectively support and accommodate | |
| continued growth.</p> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Strategic | |
| Partner Quotes</font></b></td> | |
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| <td> <P> Hewlett Packard (HP)<br> | |
| "As an independent, not-for-profit corporation, Eclipse will | |
| provide a superior environment for tool integration and interoperability | |
| and will continue to cultivate a vibrant community of tool providers | |
| and users," said Mike Rank, director of developer resources | |
| and partner enablement for HP. "HP is proud to serve on the | |
| Eclipse board of directors and provide its experience and expertise | |
| in both using and extending the Eclipse technology. As a strategic | |
| member of the Eclipse organization, HP is committed to providing | |
| developers with the tools needed to incorporate and leverage application | |
| management capabilities over the entire software development lifecycle."</p> | |
| <p>IBM<br> | |
| "IBM, a leader and champion of the Eclipse movement, is committed | |
| to continuing our significant investment to improve the Eclipse | |
| platform, frameworks and related tools," said Lee R. Nackman, | |
| IBM vice president of desktop development tools and chief technical | |
| officer of Rational software." To deliver on the promise of | |
| Eclipse, accommodate future growth, and further enhance the value | |
| of this technology to the open community, IBM is proud now to help | |
| launch Eclipse as an independent not-for-profit organization."</p> | |
| <p>Intel<br> | |
| "Intel is pleased to be a founding member of the new independent | |
| Eclipse,” said Jonathan Khazam, general manager of Intel's | |
| Software Products Division and member of the new Eclipse Board of | |
| Directors. "We are committed to playing an active role in the | |
| new organization and believe Eclipse will enhance our Linux development | |
| tool product offerings. Intel’s deep knowledge of processor | |
| architecture and tools technology will enable us to participate | |
| in enhancing Eclipse for the next generation of development tools."</p> | |
| <p>MontaVista<br> | |
| "The rapid and broad adoption of Eclipse technology leverages | |
| the immense resources of the Open Source community, as does Linux, | |
| for the benefit of software developers worldwide," commented | |
| Jim Ready, chief executive officer and president of MontaVista Software. | |
| "MontaVista Software has adopted Eclipse as the strategic development | |
| framework, benefiting our customers, and proudly demonstrates our | |
| commitment to Eclipse through our membership in the new independent | |
| entity, and with our contributions to Eclipse technology.”</p> | |
| <p>QNX Software Systems<br> | |
| "QNX is proud to be a driving force behind Eclipse since its | |
| inception," said Dan Dodge, chief executive officer of QNX | |
| Software Systems Ltd. "With a seat on the board as a strategic | |
| developer member, we are reinforcing and extending our commitment | |
| to the goals of seamless tool integration and advancement of best-in-class | |
| tooling for embedded software development."</p> | |
| <p>SAP<br> | |
| "As a founding member of the new independent entity and an | |
| early adopter of Eclipse technology in our SAP NetWeaver Developer | |
| Studio, we are pleased to serve on the newly formed Eclipse Board | |
| of Directors," said Michael Bechauf, vice president NetWeaver | |
| Standards. "SAP has taken a very active role in promoting the | |
| Eclipse open source tools platform and we look forward to contributing | |
| to its continued success. Participation in the earliest development | |
| phases of Eclipse has allowed our customers to leverage the Eclipse | |
| ecosystem. The momentum Eclipse has gained will help our customers | |
| and partners benefit from a more rapid development of the platform | |
| with increased support from a more diverse ecosystem."</p> | |
| <p>Serena Software:<br> | |
| "We are excited to participate in the new Eclipse as a strategic | |
| consumer,” said Boris Kapitanski, vice president of Strategic | |
| Technology at Serena Software. “Eclipse is becoming a very | |
| attractive platform for a variety of companies, due mostly to its | |
| highly integrated nature. Our goal is to make Eclipse even more | |
| usable and robust by extending its capabilities from a development | |
| platform to a complete application lifecycle support environment | |
| to attract more business, marketing, and technical users to the | |
| Eclipse community."</p> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Announced | |
| Eclipse Add-in Providers</font></b></td> | |
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| <td><P>Advanced Systems Concepts<br> | |
| Borland<br> | |
| Candle Corporation<br> | |
| CanyonBlue<br> | |
| Catalyst Systems Corporation<br> | |
| CollabNet<br> | |
| Embarcadero Technologies<br> | |
| ETRI<br> | |
| Exadel<br> | |
| Fujitsu<br> | |
| Genuitec<br> | |
| Hitachi Software<br> | |
| ILOG<br> | |
| INNOOPRACT<br> | |
| Instantiations, Inc.<br> | |
| Logic Library<br> | |
| M7 Corporation<br> | |
| Metanology Corporation<br> | |
| Micro Focus<br> | |
| MKS<br> | |
| Novell<br> | |
| Optena Corporation<br> | |
| Oracle<br> | |
| PalmSource<br> | |
| Parasoft Corporation<br> | |
| QA Systems<br> | |
| Red Hat<br> | |
| SAS<br> | |
| Scapa Technologies Limited<br> | |
| SilverMark<br> | |
| SlickEdit<br> | |
| Teamstudio<br> | |
| Telelogic<br> | |
| Tensilica<br> | |
| TimeSys<br> | |
| Unisys<br> | |
| VA Software, Inc.<br> | |
| Wasabi Systems<br> | |
| webMethods<br> | |
| Wind River<br> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">About | |
| Eclipse</font></b></td> | |
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| <td> <P> Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around 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 environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in | |
| based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize | |
| software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and exploiting | |
| core integration technology, tool producers can leverage platform | |
| reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new development | |
| technology. 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, OSx and Windows based systems. A full description | |
| of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design | |
| and use of the Eclipse Platform are available at <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">http://www.eclipse.org</a>.</p> | |
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| <td> <p>Barbara Patterson<br> | |
| Patterson and Associates<br> | |
| 480-488-6909<br> | |
| <a href="mailto:%20barbara@patterson.com">barbara@patterson.com</a></p></td> | |
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| <P>Some components of Eclipse may be governed by license terms other | |
| than the CPL. </P> | |
| <P>	Brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks | |
| of their respective holders. Java and all Java-based trademarks | |
| are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. | |
| in the United States and other countries.</P> | |
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