Blog Posts

Business Week just published the ‘CEO Guide to Open Source Software’ and let me say it is pretty lame. I can only hope that most CEO’s will look further than this report to be educated about Open Source Software. The report is essentially a rehash of the messages from...

This YouTube video shows Eclipse Higgins being used to authenticate a user and grant access for that user to GMail. The video is just one of a collection of videos showing some advanced authentication mechanisms that Google research is investigating. Higgins in huge in the identity management space. The project...

Tim Bray has written an insightful piece describing his perscription for a healthier Sun, at the end he suggested others might want to do the same, so here is my version. Product Strategy Sun’s problem is not that they don’t have good products, it is they have too many products...

Just a friendly reminder that the Eclipse Banking Day in New York City starts in two weeks time on December 9. We have a great program that features talks on Equinox, EMF, RAP, BIRT/DTP and others, plus speakers from Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital and UBS. It should be...

I was able to track down 3 more Symposium leaders at ESE. Hear what they had to say about the highlights of their symposiums. Jeff McAffer, co-leader of Eclipse RT PMC, discusses the highlights of the RT Symposium. [blip.tv ?posts_id=1493992&dest=-1] Christine Mitterbauer talks about the results of the Test-Driven Development...

Well almost live from Eclipse Summit Europe, I am asking each Symposium leader to talk about the highlights of their Symposium. First up is Ed Merks as he discusses the Modeling Symposium [blip.tv ?posts_id=1492603&dest=-1] Boris Bokowski discuss the e4 Symposium. [blip.tv ?posts_id=1492647&dest=-1] Doug Gaff talks about the Embedded Symposium [blip.tv...

Markus Knauer and Harald Kornmayer presented the g-eclipse project at Eclipse Summit Europe earlier today (“ From Grid to Cloud computing“). Markus gave a great demo of how g-eclipse can be used to manage a collection of computers running in (on?) Amazon’s cloud (there’s some good documentation that shows how...

Excelsior just released Excelsior JET 6.5 beta 3. With Excelsior JET, you can compile your Java- and Eclipse-based applications into a “native” executable with an embedded JRE (no external JRE required). The new version features a GUI for compiling RCP applications. Their website contains a collection of compiled open source...

On Monday at Eclipse Summit Europe we held the first Eclipse European Members’ Meeting. I have posted some of the presentation slides on the meeting agenda. (I will post more when I have time) Three presentations really caught my attention: 1. Karsten Schmidt did a great job telling the SAP...

O’Reilly Media has announced a new J ava programming certification. As reported on Slashdot, it appears to be competition for Sun’s Java Programmer certification. What is very interesting is that students will use ‘ a special learning version of the Eclipse open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment), where students apply...