Blog Posts

We will be closing down the Eclipse Community Survey on Friday, September 7, so if you haven’t taken the time to complete it, now is the time. Here are 4 good reasons to do so: You can help provide feedback to the Eclipse community, so we can improve the services...

After much discussion, debate, a bit of crying and bribery (my favourite parenting technique), I have secured one MLP from my daughters’ collection for the Eclipse MLP Tour. They weren’t thrilled about me taking their entire collection on the road but have agreed to part with one. The conversation went...

The uptake on Mark Dexter’s “ Eclipse and Java for Total Beginners” tutorials has been nothing short of phenomenal. He’s showing some impressive (no, staggering) download statistics and a discussion thread attached to his project is filled with kudos. Mark is helping a lot of people get started with the...

Denis just sent out the download stats for the Europa packages to the cross project mailing list. I thought a wider audience might be interested, so I will reproduce them here. As of Sept. 4 if you add up the downloads of the SDK, Platform and EPP package there has...

The latest rage in the software marketing seems to be doing road shows on buses or trucks. The Adobe AIR bus seemed to have started the trend and now the NetBean’s guys are following up with the NetBean’s mobile. There is even a good natured competition on who has the...

We have over 500 responses for the Eclipse community survey. We’d like to get closer to 800-1000, so if you haven’t taken the time to fill out the survey please take the time to do it today. It should only take 10-15 minutes and your feedback will be very helpful...

Early this summer, we announce the Eclipse RCP training series. If you are building or thinking about building an application based on Eclipse RCP, then you might want to consider registering for one of the 4-day classes. Classes are being offered in Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, Braunschweig, Brussels, Chicago, Denver, Luxembourg...

Open source business models and open source business strategies are always a hot topic. Therefore, I was really interested in seeing the Actuate CEO discuss their strategy and the successes they are having by participating in the Eclipse community. An interesting read for anyone thinking about this topic.

Sun has decided to rename their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. These types of announcements really give the marketing profession a bad reputation. The comments on Johnathan Schwartz blog are pretty brutal. The Sun marketing folks really need to give their heads a good shake. More seriously I think...

The call for participation in the Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) Symposia is out. The symposia will be held on October 9th, the day before the start of the conference which runs October 10th and 11th. Seven sessions are planned: Application Provisioning hosted by Jeff McAffer and Tim Webb Eclipse Modeling...