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We are very pleased to announce the Eclipse Finance Day in Zurich on October 16, 2012. Eclipse is used by some major financial institutions so this event is a great opportunity for individuals working in the finance industry to share best practices and network with their peers. We have speakers...

There has been a lot of conversation this past week about the state of Juno’s performance on the new Eclipse 4.2 platform. The original thread was kicked off by Thomas Hallgren, there’s been a flurry of comments on bug 385272, and a nice summary of the concerns in Andrey Loskutov’s...

The Eclipse webmaster has the necessary bits in place for us to complete our migration to Git: we have begun the process of migrating the eclipse.org website from CVS to Git. As of this moment, the content for nineteen (19) of the 254 subdirectories on eclipse.org are managed via Git...

Koneki released its 0.8 version with Juno, and we plan on graduating with a 1.0 version for Kepler. In order to stabilize our API and improve the overall quality of the product, we thought it would be better if we released a 0.9 in-between. This 0.9 version is scheduled for...

We are starting to gear up for EclipseCon 2013 in Boston. The first order of business is to form a program committee. Therefore I am very please to announce John Arthorne has agreed to be the Program Chair. Joining John on the committee will be: Doug Schaefer (past chair) Cedric...

Machine-2-Machine (M2M) or the Internet of Things (IoT) is a technology area and industry that is growing very quickly, has a lot of great potential but I am not sure is understood very well by the software industry. We are lucking to have at Eclipse a very active M2M Industry...

About a month ago, Sierra Wireless proposed a new project under the umbrella of the M2M Industry Working Group that aims at delivering a crucial missing piece to the global architecture of the open source M2M stack this Group is trying to establish. Mihini is a runtime technology that hides...

Sometimes open source projects lose steam. This is the way of things. Developers get pulled off projects. Sometimes the resulting gaps get filled naturally. Diversity in a project is one way of making sure that gaps fill naturally: if the developers from one organization lose interest, then developers from an...

I spent my day today at OSCON 2012. I took the opportunity to attend talks on subjects that I don’t normally get to spent a lot of time with. The quality varied (I was shocked–shocked, I tell you–to learn that mining data out of arbitrarily-formatted HTML is “hard”). I spent...

We are planning to hold an Eclipse Finance Day in Zurich Switzerland on October 16, 2012. The Finance industry is a huge user and adopter of Eclipse, so hosting an Eclipse Day is a great opportunity to learn from your industry peers and discover what else is possible with Eclipse...