The Orion team has announced their 1.0 release, a major milestone for this new tooling platform for the web, in the web. Or if you prefer, for the cloud, in the cloud. For those who are not familiar with Orion, you may want to read my introductory blog post when...
Eclipse Committers at EclipseCon Europe: if you see me wandering around, or sitting in a talk or at table, please come and introduce yourself. I’d like to meet you. Earlier tonight, I tweeted an observation: The EGit project doesn’t use its name in UI contributions. This helps the project feel...
I am very happy to welcome Google as the newest Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation. This is important, and exciting news for the Eclipse community. Google will be joining CA Technologies, IBM, Oracle and SAP as the backbone of the Eclipse Foundation’s funding, as each of these companies are...
Some people might have noticed the download numbers for some of the more popular products on Eclipse Marketplace have taken a huge jump. For instance, Maven Integration for Eclipse has jumped to over 30,000 successful installs per month from the typical 6000-7000 installs per month. We first discovered the large...
Last year, EclipseCon Europe was the moment when the Eclipse Foundation, together with Eurotech, IBM and Sierra Wireless announced the creation of the M2M Industry Working Group. Over the last 12 months, a great deal of stuff has happened: there are now three projects living under the umbrella of the...
One of our goals for EclipseCon NA 2013 is to make it accessible to more people. Over the past number of years we have heard from individuals and companies that would have like to attend but the registration price was too high. Therefore, I am thrilled that this year we...
Hey Eclipse Project Leads! The retirement date for CVS is approaching fast! If you have not already done so, you need to initiate plans to migrate your project repositories (both source code and website) to Git. All projects currently using CVS must migrate to Git before the deadline. All CVS...
I am the target of a lot of email from the community. Messages that I receive generally fall into three different buckets: Eclipse project stuff from committers and project leads, requests for price quotes, and pleas for help. I do get lots of other types of email, but these are...
Did you register for the upcoming M2M (Machine-to-Machine) webinars series? In the next few weeks there will be four webinars to give you not only a general introduction to what Machine-to-Machine is, but also highlight how actors of the Eclipse community are working on addressing the challenges associated with M2M...
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...