eclipse

Thanks to Darrin for the pointer to Steve Yegge’s excellent OSCON presentation on marketing and branding. A video recording of the presentation is online. There are three points from Steve’s presentation that I think are important to consider: 1) Branding is important and software people need to think about it...

Last week, LinuxWatch and eWeek published an article ‘ Linux developers considering move to Eclipse‘. The article summarizes a breakout session at the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. The result of the session was: [….], it was decided to start making Eclipse, the open-source development platform, the Visual Studio for...

As a follow-up to my post about China being our #1 country for downloads, Denis made the point that we have only one mirror in China; thanks to Actuate. Given, we are getting ready for the Europa release, this would be a great time to add some mirrors in China...

I am pleased to announce a new open source conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. The conference is scheduled for Nov. 26-30 and will be located in Hong Kong. The really exciting thing for me is that this conference is being organized as a collaboration between the...

I have been looking around to find references to Eclipse when it was first launched. There is lots of stuff but here are some of the more interesting things: the original press release announcing the eclipse.org consortium thanks to the Wayback machine, the eclipse.org web site, circa Sept. 25, 2001...