Blog Posts

I’m writing a little utility that scans the download.eclipse.org server to compare the contents against our IPZilla database. Essentially, I’m scanning for third-party libraries distributed from our servers. My script looks for any “*.jar” file (case insensitive) found either directly in the file system or contained within any ZIP or...

I have a bit of sad news, which is that Barb Cochrane of the Intellectual Property Management team is leaving us, effective Friday. Barb has been great to work with for the past three years. She added a lot of fun and enthusiasm to both the office and the community...

Cate Huston has done an analysis of the Eclipse Summit Europe twitter hashtag (#ese). It is interesting to see the visualization of what people were talking about at ESE. I wonder who was the person with the most tweets and who actually used 5 different clients?

Neil Bartlett asked me on Twitter a few days ago why the Eclipse Foundation was supporting the JSR for SE8, given that this JSR is “anti-OSGi”. That is a very good question. I believe that Neil and others are basing their “anti-OSGi” read of the JSR based on Section 2.1’s...

Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus monthsstarts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for...

My recent blog post Changing Nature of Open Source Companies discusses a 451 Group report that describes how corporate open source strategies have been evolving through four different stages. Most companies are now looking at creating and participating in an open development community. As a reminder, the four stages describe...

Each year people are mad/shocked/angry/disappointed/sad their talk did not get selected for EclipseCon. Unfortunately, each year we have a limited numbers of speaking spots and typically 3-4 times the number of proposals. The Program Committee (PC) does their best to select talks they feel will be of most interest to...

Hot off the press, Apple and Oracle just announced that: Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for...

Over the past couple of months, I’ve worked on some tools that I’ve found helpful for project administration. First up is a listing of proposals and reviews. Now, we actually already do have some of this information available in other places, but the new pages provide dates (when was the...

Matt Aslett, from 451 Group, is one of the best analysts in the industry for studying the business strategies of companies related to open source. His 2008 report ‘ Open Source is Not a Business Model’ correctly pointed out that companies did not just use open source but used a...