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    JetBrains Lockin: We Told You So

    Friday, September 4, 2015 - 11:02 by Mike Milinkovich
    The news this morning that JetBrains is switching to a subscription-only model is a perfect example of why and how trusting a proprietary tools vendor leaves you and your business exposed to the whims of their profit margins. Make no mistake: this is motivated by what’s good for their business...

    Leading Automotive Companies to Collaborate at Eclipse: Introducing openMDM

    Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 15:21 by Mike Milinkovich
    Last week, AUDI, BMW and Daimler announced they are joining forces to form the Eclipse openMDM Working Group to create a new open source community to develop and distribute tools for managing automotive test data. These leading automotive OEMs will be joined in the group by Canoo Engineering AG, GIGATRONIK...

    JavaOne: The Eclipse Inside

    Sunday, September 29, 2013 - 22:12 by Mike Milinkovich
    I spent last week at JavaOne in San Francisco, and I thought I would share a few things about the event that might be of interest to the Eclipse community. First I should mention that I thought the buzz at the conference was the best that I’ve felt for years...

    Embracing Social Coding at Eclipse

    Thursday, June 20, 2013 - 10:30 by Mike Milinkovich
    The Eclipse Foundation is going to start allowing its projects to host their mainline development on third party forges such as GitHub, and (eventually) Bitbucket. This means that an Eclipse project will be able to leverage the great development tools provided by those vendors. The first project that we are...