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Industry leaders Red Hat, Eurotech and Cloudera turned to the Eclipse IoT Working Group to overcome common challenges and provide their customers with an end-to-end IoT solution. This case study describes the difficulties each company faced and how they managed to meet customer expectations with the help of the Eclipse...

Summary of progress to date and implications of the agreement between Eclipse and Oracle on Jakarta EE and use of Java trademarks and the javax namespace. Introduction The migration of Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation has been an enormous effort on behalf of the Eclipse Foundation staff and the...

We are proud to announce that our 2019 IoT Developer Survey results are now available! In February & March 2019, we conducted the fifth annual IoT Developer Survey and 1,717 responses were received. Thank you all for contributing to this initiative and helping us gain insight into IoT developer communities...

After months of hard work, the 2019 IoT Developer Survey results are live today. This year marks the fifth year the Eclipse IoT Working Group has asked the global IoT developer community to share their perceptions, requirements, and priorities. The survey has proven to be an influential assessment of the...

Recently, the streaming data analytics startup Confluent announced that it had closed a $125 million Series D funding round. With the company’s value pegged at $2.5 billion, Confluent became the latest open source “unicorn.” To say that the open source community is on a roll would be an understatement. In...

Note: to see redline versions of the changes to the documents discussed below, please visit this contribution and committer agreements page. Over my almost 15 years of sharing updates about what’s going on at Eclipse, some blogs are more important than others. This one is important as it requires action...

I am very happy to announce that we are publishing a draft of the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process for community review and feedback. This specification process will be used by Jakarta EE as the new open specification process, replacing the JCP process previously used for Java EE. It is also...

Migrating Java EE to the Eclipse Foundation and Jakarta EE is a process not an event. In the past couple of weeks however, several very important milestones have occurred that deserve to be recognized. 100% of Glassfish and related Java EE reference implementation components from Oracle have now been contributed...

It’s hard to believe that Google released Kubernetes as an open source project only three years ago. What began as the Borg cluster management platform to provide services like Gmail and YouTube at global scale is now the standard orchestration layer at the center of a massive industry shift to...

Spoiler alert: 162 million! That’s right, as of August 1st, there are 330 active open-source projects hosted at the Eclipse Foundation and if you look across the 1120 Git repositories that this represents, you will find over 162 million physical source lines of code. But beyond this number, let’s look...