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Anyone interested in my previous comments regarding the Higgins announcement should also read Bob Sutor’s post that so eloquently lays to rest much of the hyperbole concerning this announcement.

No, I am not talking about one of my all-time favourite B movies. I’m talking about the Higgins announcement today. (Higgins being both a project at Eclipse and a Tasmanian long-tailed mouse.) In the press release, IBM, Novell and Parity Communications announced support for the Eclipse Higgins project. The announcement...

Check this out. The publishers of EclipseMagazin in Germany have created a 20,000 euro award program for “ Outstanding European Contributions on Java and Eclipse“. Very exciting!

This week both Donald and I are at the Open Source Business Conference ( OSBC West). Steve O’Grady already blogged on his impressions of yesterday’s events. For those that have never been to an OSBC, it is a fairly unique show. There are basically equal numbers of lawyers, venture capitalists...

Both my wife and my mother would agree that I am terrible with this stuff. I meant to post this on the date, really I did! February 2, 2004 is the date we use as the birthday for the independently governed Eclipse Foundation, as that’s the date it was officially...

This week, Borland made some very audacious moves when they announced an acquisition of Segue and a divestiture of their IDE tools business. As others have commented, this does not mean the end of JBuilder or Delphi, but these are certainly bold and strategic moves. I can still recall using...

Simon Phipps wrote an interesting blog post musing about the how the Japanese business model of interlocking companies ( keiretsu) and the long tail intersect to describe the functionings of open source communities. Basically, the idea is that open source communities can be described as “code keiretsus around a long...

I thought I would mention a few early thoughts on the GPLv3 progress, and the impact it may have on the Eclipse community. (In other words, I am most emphatically not talking about the merits of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s proposed GPL revisions in general.) Janet Campbell from the...

Now there’s a company that know how to treat its developers. 2400 hundred technical people (1200 from out of town) all in the San Jose Convention Centre. That is a non-trivial investment of time and money into team building. But if you’re going to work in a distributed environment, it...

Perhaps it’s because of my recent trip to China, but it is becoming increasingly clear that internationalization is a very big deal for everyone in the software world. The ability to fully enable products and applications for double-byte and bi-directional languages is key. Enter ICU4J. One look at the JDK...