As I have previously mentioned, this past week we hosted the fourth Eclipse Marketing Symposium at Eclipse World. I have posted the presentation slides from all of the speakers. To recap, the sessions included: Getting Developers to Listen – Matthew Schmidt from DZone/JavaLobby Actuate Case Study – Rich Guth from...
Lars Vogel is quickly becoming one of our most prolific contributors. His latest entry teaches the reader how to create that first bundle and gently introduces the terminology and technology around OSGi and Equinox. Send comments about the article directly to Lars (his email address is on the article).
I spent a couple of hours at CASCON 2008 today. The conference, brought to us by the good folks at IBM’s Centers for Advanced Studies (CAS). This conference brings together researchers from industry and university to learn from each other and share what they’ve been working on. I attended today...
[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...