Blog Posts

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...

November is the season for Eclipse Demo Camps. We have 30 different demo camps organized in cities around the world. For the first time we have a number of Campus Demo Camps organized to reach out to the academic and student communities. I’d love to attend all the demo camps...

Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) 2010 was a great success. I really enjoyed meeting old and new friends in the Eclipse community. The final attendance numbers was 467 attendees, a sell out! Each year we ask the attendees to answer some questions so we can get an appreciation of who is...

The Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day was held yesterday in Zurich. We had over 100 people from 50 different companies in attendance. All the feedback was very positive and a lot of gratitude to UBS for being wonderful hosts. UPDATE: Christian Meier from UBS did a very nice summary of the...