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| Independent Eclipse Foundation Accelerates Momentum of Eclipse </b></span></b></h1> | |
| <P>OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA - October 6, 2004 - The Eclipse Foundation announced | |
| tremendous growth and momentum since it has become an independent organization. | |
| In the past six months, Eclipse membership has increased 30 percent, nine | |
| new open source projects have been initiated, and more than 18 companies | |
| have included the Eclipse Platform and IDE as the basis of their commercial | |
| developer tools solution.</p> | |
| <P> Seventeen new organizations have become Eclipse members and have committed | |
| resources to strengthen the Eclipse ecosystem. These new members include | |
| Actuate Corporation; Acucorp Inc.; Agitar Software; Aonix; Compuware Corporation; | |
| Communications and Media Arts (CMA); Eclipse PlugIn Central (EPIC); JBoss | |
| Inc.; Kinzan Inc.; M1 Global Solution; Mentor Graphics; Panscopic; PureEdge | |
| Solutions, Inc.; Real-Time Innovations, Inc.; Social Physics; Softlanding | |
| Systems Inc.; and The Thales Group. </p> | |
| <P>"Actuate joined Eclipse as a Strategic Developer because it makes | |
| good business sense," explained Paul Clenahan, vice president of | |
| Product Management at Actuate Corporation. "Our leadership in the | |
| Eclipse open source project is important to expanding our markets. Being | |
| a member of the Eclipse Board of Directors increases Actuate's visibility | |
| and influence within the Eclipse community."<br> | |
| </p> | |
| <P>Broad-based industry involvement has led to the creation of three new | |
| top-level Eclipse projects, the Test and Performance Tools Project, the | |
| Business Intelligence and Reporting Project (BIRT) and the Web Tools Project. | |
| Six new Technology projects have also been initiated: Concern Manipulation | |
| Environment (CME), Eclipse Communications Project, Embedded Rich Client | |
| Platform (eRCP), Pollinate, Open Modeling Environment with Links for Extensions | |
| and Transformations (OMELET), and the Voice Tools Project. In total, Eclipse | |
| now has six top-level open source projects that are made up of 34 subprojects. | |
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| <P>Finally, commercial adoption of the Eclipse technology continues to grow. | |
| A total of 18 companies base their commercial developer tools solutions | |
| on the Eclipse Platform and IDE, including: </p> | |
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| <li>Exadel Struts Studio and JSF Studio</li> | |
| <li>Genuitec MyEclipse</li> | |
| <li>IBM WebSphere Studio</li> | |
| <li>Intel C++ Compiler 8.1 for Linux</li> | |
| <li>Kinzan Studio</li> | |
| <li>M7 NitroX</li> | |
| <li>Mentor Graphics Nucleus Edge</li> | |
| <li>Monta Vista Dev Rocket</li> | |
| <li>Novell/SuSE SDK</li> | |
| <li>PalmOS Dev Suite</li> | |
| <li>Parasoft JTest</li> | |
| <li>PureEdge Designer</li> | |
| <li>QNX Momentics</li> | |
| <li>Red Hat Developer Suite</li> | |
| <li>SAP NetWeaver Studio</li> | |
| <li>Tensilica Xtensa Xplorer IDE</li> | |
| <li>TimeSys TimeStorm IDE</li> | |
| <li>Wind River Workbench</li> | |
| </ul> | |
| <p> "We are very pleased with the growth in the Eclipse community," | |
| explains Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, | |
| Inc. "The new members and projects demonstrate the tremendous amount | |
| of innovation and advancement within the Eclipse technology. This in turn | |
| provides the value and technology required for widespread adoption of | |
| Eclipse in the IT industry."</p> | |
| <p>For more information about the new Eclipse members and projects please | |
| visit the following url: http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/momentum.html<br> | |
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| <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial,Helvetica">Quotes from New Eclipse Members</font></b></td> | |
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| <p><b>Agitar Software</b><br> | |
| "Agitar's solution, Agitator, makes it practical-for the first | |
| time-for Java software developers to create unit tests as an integral | |
| part of software development. This process, referred to as developer | |
| testing, has a profound positive impact on the quality of delivered | |
| software while shortening development timelines. Providing tight | |
| integration with IDEs maximizes the value of our solution. Our customers | |
| worldwide made it clear that Eclipse is rapidly gaining momentum, | |
| and our first integration should be with the Eclipse platform. We'll | |
| ship our fully-integrated Eclipse version of Agitator this quarter. | |
| We are excited to become part of the rapidly expanding Eclipse community." | |
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| <i>- Jerry Rudisin, president and CEO of Agitar</i></p> | |
| <p><b>Aonix</b><br> | |
| "In the mission- and safety-critical market, our customers | |
| come from a number of industry sectors, each carrying its own certification | |
| standards and specialized tools. Such markets suffer from proprietary | |
| tool chains. But with the Eclipse Platform's strategy of delivering | |
| common platforms that enable embedded developers to mix tools, we | |
| are able to bring to market a broad range of interoperable, commercial | |
| off-the-shelf products that will offer tremendous cost savings, | |
| increased flexibility and a richer feature set for our customers."<br> | |
| <i>- Jacques Brygier, vice president of Marketing at Aonix</i></p> | |
| <p><b>Compuware Corporation</b><br> | |
| "As Eclipse continues to gain momentum, Compuware remains committed | |
| to driving business value from the developer desktop. We provide | |
| unique value to Eclipse developers through our model-driven, pattern-based | |
| approach that transforms models directly into working applications. Additionally, | |
| Compuware's code diagnostics and performance-tuning products help | |
| developers become more efficient and productive."<br> | |
| <i>- Bob Barker, vice president of Strategic Planning at Compuware</i></p> | |
| <p><b>JBoss, Inc.</b><br> | |
| "Our objective in joining the Eclipse Foundation, one of the | |
| most respected and active open source organizations, is to contribute | |
| code that we believe will make it easier for developers to work | |
| with JBoss. We anticipate our first major contribution will be a | |
| plug-in that will provide developers with a Java-based, aspect oriented | |
| framework that will be of use in any programming environment."<br> | |
| <i>- Bob Bickel, vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development | |
| of JBoss, Inc.</i></p> | |
| <p><b>Kinzan Inc.</b><br> | |
| "We placed a bet in mid 2003 that Eclipse would emerge as the | |
| dominant Java IDE and that bet has paid off big time. Any developer | |
| who has used Eclipse before is instantly able to benefit from the | |
| productivity of Kinzan Studio, our Eclipse-based tool for visually | |
| assembling web applications."<br> | |
| <i>- James O'Leonard, vice president of Product Management & | |
| Marketing at Kinzan Inc.</i></p> | |
| <p><b>M1 Global Solutions, Inc.</b><br> | |
| "M1 is excited to join Eclipse and to extend our participation | |
| in the open source community. By leveraging the Eclipse framework | |
| for M1's Model Driven Architecture (MDA) tool, the Model Driven | |
| Environment (MDE) and our business process modeling tool BPi Studio-in | |
| conjunction with using these tools internally and using modeling | |
| to simplify communications with our off-shore development center-we've | |
| been able to dramatically reduce the time and cost of our software | |
| development efforts at the same time as we increase quality."<br> | |
| <i>- Lawrence Catchpole, chief strategy officer of M1 Global Solutions, | |
| Inc.</i></p> | |
| <p><b>Mentor Graphics</b><br> | |
| "Embedded developers are now seeing the value of an open framework | |
| for their development tools. As an Eclipse member, Accelerated Technology | |
| now has the ability to play an active role in the open source community | |
| and will be the voice of both Nucleus customers and the embedded | |
| community at large in regards to recommendations and suggestions. | |
| The use of Eclipse with the newly launched Nucleus EDGE embedded | |
| software development environment offers the winning combination | |
| of our powerful true embedded tools technology with the openness | |
| and interoperability of the Eclipse platform."<br> | |
| <i>- Robert Day, director of Marketing at Accelerated Technology, | |
| a Mentor Graphics Division</i></p> | |
| <p> <b>PureEdge Solutions, Inc.</b><br> | |
| "As a leader in the area of open standards and as an organization | |
| that has worked closely with many standards organizations, PureEdge | |
| is proud to be a new member of the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse is | |
| a key component in our ongoing product leadership in the design | |
| and deployment of XML e-forms. Eclipse will become a core foundation | |
| for an integrated design environment that leverages the growing | |
| Eclipse development community. PureEdge also offers a set of products | |
| that support Eclipse-based clients such as IBM's Lotus Workplace."<br> | |
| <i>- Mark Upson, president and CEO of PureEdge Solutions</i></p> | |
| <p><b>Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI)</b><br> | |
| "RTI recently demonstrated its Eclipse plugin tools for visual | |
| debugging, ProfileScope and MemScope, along with Wind River's Eclipse | |
| 3.0-based Workbench IDE, in a series of Linux development seminars | |
| across the country. Developers were wowed by the slick environment, | |
| intuitive navigation, and easy visibility into essential development | |
| data through Eclipse perspectives." <br> | |
| <i>- Pauline Shulman, senior product marketing manager at RTI</i></p> | |
| <p><b>SocialPhysics.org</b><br> | |
| "Being a formal member has opened new doors and allowed us | |
| to leverage our resources." <br> | |
| <i>- Paul Trevithick of SocialPhysics.org</i></p> | |
| <p><b>The Thales Group</b><br> | |
| "As a worldwide leader in the areas of mission-critical, large-scale | |
| software systems and open software architectures, Thales is proud | |
| to be a new member of the Eclipse Foundation. Thales' Eclipse membership | |
| is part of our policy of proactive support of open software technologies, | |
| and we see Eclipse as an increasingly important player in the area | |
| of open-source development platforms. Eclipse technology is already | |
| part of the core foundation of Thales' integrated system and software | |
| development environment used for major aerospace programmes. Thales | |
| is also contributing to the Eclipse project WebTools and takes advantage | |
| of Eclipse technologies for the deployment of its Model Driven Development | |
| strategy."<br> | |
| <i>- Dominique Potier, chief scientist for Software Technologies | |
| at Thales</i><br> | |
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| Description of New Top-Level Eclipse Projects</font></b></td> | |
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| <p><b>Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools Project (BIRT)</b></p> | |
| <p>The mission of BIRT is to create a wide variety of capabilities | |
| that allow developers to easily extract data from data sources, | |
| process that data using flexible and powerful data manipulation, | |
| sorting and aggregation, and present the processed information in | |
| a formatted layout to end users.</p> | |
| <p>The capabilities can range from application- and production-level | |
| reporting through ad hoc user-driven query tools to highly interactive | |
| multi-dimensional online analytical processing (OLAP) and data mining | |
| tools.</p> | |
| <p>Some level of reporting is a common requirement in the majority | |
| of applications developed today. The project provides a focal point | |
| for the creation of best-of-breed business intelligence and reporting | |
| capabilities for integration into these applications or as dedicated | |
| applications in their own right.</p> | |
| <p><b>Test and Performance Tools Project</b></p> | |
| <p>The Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Project will extend the | |
| family of Eclipse technologies to provide an open development platform | |
| supplying frameworks and services for test and performance tools | |
| that are used throughout the development lifecycle. The tools apply | |
| to testing, tracing/profiling, tuning, logging, monitoring, analysis, | |
| autonomics, administration and so on but do not include development | |
| tools such as optimizing compilers. The project supports a spectrum | |
| of standalone through highly-distributed computing systems and embedded | |
| through enterprise computing systems.</p> | |
| <p><b>Web Tools Platform Project</b></p> | |
| <p>The purpose of the Web Tools Platform Project is to build a generic, | |
| extensible, standards-based tool platform upon which software providers | |
| can create specialized, differentiated offerings for J2EE and Web-centric | |
| application development. Key objectives are to combine product innovation | |
| with adherence to vendor-neutral standards and technologies while | |
| delivering practical solutions for real development concerns. This | |
| project builds on the Eclipse Platform and other core Eclipse technologies | |
| to provide a common foundation of frameworks and services for tooling | |
| products. <br> | |
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| of New Eclipse Technology Projects</font></b></td> | |
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| <p><b>Concern Manipulation Environment (CME)</b></p> | |
| <p>CME supports software developers who want to use an <a href="http://www.aosd.net" target="_blank">aspect-oriented</a> | |
| software development (AOSD) approach to simplify their existing | |
| or new software, whether or not it was originally developed using | |
| AOSD technologies. CME also supports AOSD tool providers and researchers | |
| who seek to provide novel aspect-related technologies and paradigms | |
| and make these available to the development community in an integrated | |
| development environment. </p> | |
| <p><b>Eclipse Communications Project (ecomm)</b></p> | |
| <p>The goal of ecomm is to provide an open source, peer-to-peer messaging | |
| and communications framework for the Eclipse platform. The ecomm | |
| project will deliver to developers a set of communications plugins | |
| that can be used to construct Eclipse-based communications applications. | |
| The purpose of such a framework is to make the Eclipse platform | |
| easier and more attractive for developing applications that require | |
| group communications.</p> | |
| <p><b>Open Modeling Environment with Links for Extensions and Transformations | |
| (OMELET)</b></p> | |
| <p>OMELET is a framework for integrating diverse model representations, | |
| model transformations and model transformation technologies. OMELET | |
| is a next-generation make/Ant tool that exploits, and where possible | |
| enforces, the use of meta-models to ensure that the input, output | |
| and intermediate models for cascaded transformations are well defined | |
| and strongly typed. This provides the basic framework that is necessary | |
| for MDA. </p> | |
| <p><b>Pollinate Project</b></p> | |
| <p>Pollinate's goal is to build an Eclipse-based IDE and toolset that | |
| leverages the open source <a href="http://incubator.apache.org/beehive/" target="_blank">Apache | |
| Beehive</a> application framework. Pollinate provides a full-featured | |
| Java development environment that enables developers to visually | |
| build and assemble enterprise-scale Web applications, JSPs and Web | |
| services and leverage the Java controls framework for creating and | |
| consuming J2EE components optimized for a service-oriented architecture. | |
| This will be accomplished by creating a broad set of Eclipse plugins | |
| and user interface components for building projects on top of the | |
| Apache Beehive framework. Beehive is an Apache open-source project | |
| that uses the innovations in JDK 1.5 to help simplify programming | |
| on the J2EE platform and other Web application containers.</p> | |
| <p><b>Voice Tools Technology Project</b></p> | |
| <p>The Voice Tools Technology Project will focus on voice application | |
| tools in the JSP/J2EE space that are based on W3C standards so these | |
| standards become dominant in voice application development. Voice | |
| Tools will be a set of Eclipse plugins that will provide development | |
| tools for W3C standards/recommendations for voice application markup.<br> | |
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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, 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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