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[blip.tv ?posts_id=1418627&dest=-1] I’ve been watching too much cable news while at Eclipse World. The reporter instinct in me, sent me out to find what is new at Eclipse World. I spoke with a product manager from Electric Cloud about their new product release, Eric Clayberg about his upcoming new version...

[blip.tv ?posts_id=1417587&dest=-1] Scott Rosenbaum, the program chair of EclipseCon 2009, is here at Eclipse World. I asked Scott who are the keynote speakers at EclipseCon. Listen in….

Earlier this week Tim O’Reilly published one of those famous ‘O”Reillian’ essays that I think people we reference over the years, called ‘ Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing‘. O’Reilly breaks down the cloud computing landscape into three categories: 1) utility computing, 2) platform as a service, and 3) cloud based...

We just finished the Eclipse Marketing Symposium at Eclipse World. One of my favourite presentation was by Rich Guth from Actuate. Rich did a great job describing the Actuate open source business strategy and the success they are having with BIRT Exchange. Some highlights: – Actuate generated $8 million in...

[blip.tv ?posts_id=1410982&dest=-1] I have a new video camera that I’ve brought to Eclipse World. I hope to talk to a number of people at the conference about what they do with Eclipse. In this video, we talk to different members of the Eclipse Planning Council that met here at Eclipse...

I think we all agree that committer satisfaction is important. As the Eclipse Foundation dedicates resources into developing more and better services for committers, it behooves us to have some sense for whether or not we are indeed improving the committer experience. In order to have any sense of the...

Via Matt Assay, it seems BMW is looking for partners to create an open source computing platform for the cars multimedia and entertainment systems. Now that would be very cool project to do at Eclipse. I wonder if BMW would like to come to Eclipse Summit Europe and participate in...

This was a busy week for the mobile phone industry; RIM had their developer conference, Symbian had their conference and Google made available the code for Android. The cool thing about all of these events is that Eclipse played an important role as the developer tools platform. RIM announced a...

Voici les transparents de la présentation de p2 que j’ai réalisée aujourd’hui lors de l’évènement Eclipse Now You Can, à Paris. L’objectif était de présenter les défauts de l’ancien mécanisme de gestion des mises à jour d’Eclipse (l’ Update Manager), et d’indiquer comment ils sont corrigés par son remplaçant...

Matt Assay asked the question ‘Is commerical open source possible?’, citing an article about Larry Lessig comments about mixing community and commerce. I have not read Lessig’s new book ‘ Remix‘ but it seems he claims community and commerce don’t mix. Money quote: Money in the sharing economy is not...