Harvard Business Review has published a case study titled ‘ Open Source: Salvation or Suicide‘? The focus of the case is a fictitious company that is dealing with the pros and cons of open sourcing their gaming platform. It is great to see Harvard paying attention to open source, however...
The Sun GlassFish team have announced that the upcoming GlassFish v3 release will run on OSGi. This is great news for the OSGi community and for the GlassFish team. If I am not mistaken, now all the major Java application servers are/will be running on an OSGi runtime. It will...
In the theme of vertical open source projects, it is interesting to see Marketcetera’s trading platform. They are providing an open source trading platform for financial institutions. They use Eclipse RCP for the front end order entry application. I am more and more convinced we will see vendors and end-user...
Open Health Tools is a new organization that is being started to create an common and open platform for healthcare products and services. Some interesting things about this organizations: – This is a great example of industry specific organizations collaborating in an open source community. It features Canada Health Infoway...
Le jeudi 29 mai 2008, et pour la troisième année consécutive, se tiendra à Toulouse –à la Cité de l’Espace- le salon EclipseTime, organisé par Anyware Technologies ! Comme chaque année, les interventions seront assurées par des membres de la fondation Eclipse, des représentants de grands comptes et des experts...
The GSoC timeline shows April 7, 5:00 PM PDT (00:00 UTC April 8, 2008) as the application deadline. Students, make sure you get your applications in! FWIW, we currently have 120 submissions from students
Avec quelques jours de retard (il semblerait que l’intégration de p2 ait été assez laborieuse…) voici la cuvée M6 d’Eclipse 3.4 ! Comme pour chaque milestone, voici les nouveautés qui ont particulièrement retenu mon attention : Equinox Beaucoup de sous-projets qui étaient jusqu’alors en incubation ont été gradés et font...
EclipseCon was a great source of new ideas, hard work and community building. For this reason, we are pleased to bring you this great news about e4.
The Eclipse Examples project has been provisioned! I’ll spend some time later this week setting up the landing page and get to work moving some of my examples into the new project. Frankly, it’s exciting as heck for me. Over the last few days, I’ve been dreaming a bit about...
This video podcast shows a simplified example of Equinox services in action. It shows declarative services being dynamically discovered using a service tracker that updates the user interface to show the services that are available. The example also shows Equinox declarative services, and the JFace databinding APIs in use.