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The 1.0 release of e4 is planned for July 2010. Obviously, this is an important milestone for the Eclipse community. The e4 development team is doing a great job building the next generation Eclipse platform. However, as we all know, any new technology also needs evangelism, education and promotion. People...

What do the following people have in common? Ed Burnette, Linda Watson, Alain Magilore, Chris Aniszczyk, Kimberley Peter, Tim Schindl, Ed Merks, Dainel Megert, Remy Chi Suen, Eric Rizzo, Nick Boldt, Paul Webster, and Benjamin Cabe. Or the following products: Gumtree, Lombardi TeamWorks, RadRails, BEA Worksship Studio, Jigsaw Interactive, PSICAT...

One aspect of the marketing discipline I don’t like is when marketeers spend considerable amount of time and money investing in logo designs, names, colors and tag lines. I used to work for a company where the VP Marketing claimed the new logo and look was going dramatically propel the...

This has been a really good week for the EclipseRT runtime strategy. There were three announcements that indicate we are making good progress for establishing Eclipse as a community for creating innovative runtime technology based on OSGi. 1. Project Virgo was announced and proposed this week by SpringSource. As Mike...

The future of Java technology in the enterprise rests with its rapidly evolving ability to regain its original promise of lightweight, flexible and dynamic application development and deployment. In other words, the faster Java gets to the stackless stack, the brighter its future will be. As James Governor said in...

I made a mention to Mike a couple of weeks back that I wanted to make a few changes to the Eclipse Development Process (EDP). He seemed to think that evolving our process was a grand idea and reminded me that changes to the development process require approval from the...

The EclipseCon Program Committee will be hard at work over the holidays. They have until January 9 to review 430+ submissions and select about 150 talks for the final program. Given the success of my recommendations for the Early Submissions, I thought why not give them a helping hand. My...

The next step for Eclipse Marketplace (MP) is bringing MP direct to the Eclipse user desktop. We want to build a MP client that will be distributed in all of the Helios EPP packages. Instead of navigating to a separate web site, the Eclipse user will have an integrated user...

Last week we saw probably more conversation than any of us wanted about the notion that Eclipse is a trade association and therefore not an open source community. I believe that perspective to be misguided as it implies those two states are somehow mutually exclusive. They are not. And it...

Last night was the deadline to have your EclipseCon session proposal considered by the Program Committee (PC) for one of the 5 early bird selections. The good news is the PC now has 131 sessions to consider, the bad news is they have to make the selection by December 14th...