A new version of the Marketplace Client (MPC) is now available the the Java IDE and RCP M7 packages. The client is looking really nice and I have high hopes it will be a big success for the Eclipse ecosystem. To prove how simple it is to install an Eclipse...
A good sign of a healthy ecosystem is the emergence of competing solutions. Eclipse has long provided tooling support for OSGi. Now it seems NetBeans and IntelliJ are ready to provide OSGi support. The upcoming NetBeans 6.9 release features support for OSGi, which James Gosling calls ‘ getting pretty sweet.’...
Matt Stine is proposing to create an OSGi on Rails. This is exactly the type of innovation and easy on ramp the OSGi community needs to embrace if OSGi is going to cross the chasm. Lets hope this idea gets the support it deserves.
Encouraging large enterprises to participate and contribute in open source projects is the next frontier for open source communities. There are lots of examples of companies being happy users of open source technology but sadly very few examples of companies contributing back to those same open source communities. This is...
Last week we launched the Eclipse Community Survey. This is the third time we have done a community survey and each year we learn something new. There are a number of reason I think it is important to do these type of surveys: 1) Any supplier needs to understand what...
Once again we are organizing a new series of DemoCamps for the Eclipse community. During the month of June we will be featuring the Helios DemoCamps to help celebrate the Helios release train. We already have 19 DemoCamps organized, 7 in Germany alone! I’d like to see even more organized...
Crossing the Chasm is one of the classic technology business books that describe how new technology is adopted (or not adopted) by the mainstream. The main thesis is that new technology is first adopted by technology innovators and visionaries but for it to be adopted by the pragmatist in the...
As I have mentioned, we did a beta release of the Marketplace (MPC) client as part of the Java IDE and RCP Helios M6 packages. A critical part of the project is the user interface design for MPC. We want to make sure it kicks ass. Therefore, we are going...
Last year we published the results of our Eclipse Community Survey. It provides an interesting snapshot into how developers use Eclipse and the wider software development community. However, with all survey data the really interesting information is in the trends that begin to appear over a period of time. Therefore...