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There have been some discussions lately about open source software and the corporate agendas that are tied to them. A thread on Javalobby where someone accuses IBM for having an agenda to sell WSAD and Sun having an agenda for NetBeans. Also Marc Fleury, making what I find to be...

John Waters at AD Trends is working on a story for App Trends about Java tools and would like to speak with some users of the Eclipse IDE. Specifically he’s looking for: A developer who is currently using the Eclipse IDE as his/her basic Java development tool and adding plug-ins...

We would like to raise the awareness of Eclipse with Linux and Embedded Developers. Lots of people know of Eclipse as being a great platform for Java development tools. Eclipse also has a great C/C++ IDE which is being used by lots of companies as the foundation for their Linux...

The Eclipse ecosystem really shined at JavaOne. David Berlind did a good job summarizing this fact in his blog. Congratulations to all the Eclipse member organizations who made announcements at JavaOne. Thank you for the great support you are providing the Eclipse community.

OSTG, the folks that produce Sourceforge have launched the new Eclipse.Techforge.com. SourceForge has already been the home for hundreds of interesting Eclipse related open source projects, so it is great to see them start a specific channel for Eclipse. Philippe Ombredanne from nexb is the editor of the site. I...

3.1 has been declared and the count to a million has started. It is still not to late to join the Million Download Challenge.

Day 1 at JavaOne was a lot of fun. The Eclipse booth was busy and we gave away a lot of T-shirts. In good fun, we even had Roumen Strobl from the NetBean’s team come by to collect his Eclipse T-shirt. I am sure he will wear it proudly back...

Next week is going to be pretty busy. Eclipse 3.1 will be released. Don’t forget to sign-up for the Million Download Challenge. Ed Burnette has started a pool on when 3.1 will be declared. I’ll predict June 27. JavaOne is shaping up to be very busy. I will be spending...

Companies are starting to roll out their JavaOne announcements. It is great to see companies like JBoss and Borland highlight their Eclipse strategies. I was also pleasantly surprise to see e-Bay announce an open source initaitive, including an Eclipse plug-in. Next week, I know more companies are making some pretty...

Next Monday we are going to issue 3 press releases at JavaOne: 1)Release 1 will discuss the launch of 3.1 and the other project release, such as Web Tools, TPTP, etc., 2) Release 2 will highlight Eclipse RCP and 3) Release 3 will announce the 100th organization to join Eclipse...