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Part of my job at the Eclipse Foundation is to work with the different industry analyst in our space. We do a lot of work with the guys at Redmonk and I have always been impressed with their knowledge of everything. Therefore, I was not surprised to see them at...

Thanks to Donald we are harvesting some pretty interesting information from our download stats. Over the last 6 months we have noticed a gradual uptake in downloads from China. I was expecting that by the end of 2007 China would surpass the USA as being the number one country. Well...

I’ve been spending far too much time wrestling with Camtasia lately (it has a frustrating habit of completely screwing up my files). I’ve been putting together a collection of screencam demonstrations to accompany the Europa release. I did spend a little effort looking into using Wink to record my demonstrations...

We are getting ready for the launch of Europa. Some of the reporters we are talking to have expressed an interest in talking to developers who are planning to use some of the projects in Europa. Most of the ‘interviews’ will be done via e-mail. If you are interest in...

Earlier this week I was on the “How Do We Get More Apps on Linux?” panel at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit. I certainly have to agree with Danese Coopers‘s comments about being on panels. The more questions from the audience, the better IMHO. As she alludes to, I personally...

In the process of collecting stats for the Europa release I was referred to a really cool web site called Ohloh.net. It essentially collects stats on open source projects. Most of the 21 projects in Europa, last count 16 of the 21, are listed on Ohloh so I built a...

Thanks to everyone that has linked to the Europa graphic. It is helpful to getting the word out. People seem to like the Eclipse shirts, so I thought it might be a good idea to give people another opportunity to win a shirt. Hence, part 2 of requesting your help...

Via this blog, it is nice to see the local Eclipse community in Poland putting on an Eclipse Summer School. I am noticing more and more of these type of locally run Eclipse events. Nice to see.

I spent the last (you might say ‘better’) part of my day yesterday hanging out with some of my old friends at Oracle, trying to help them get their new Eclipse project up and running. The Eclipse Persistence Services project, which is affectionately known as “EclipseLink” is inheriting some awesome...

As announced by Mik and others, the Eclipse Mylar project is changing its name to Mylyn. This is the end result of quite a bit of discussion and hard work on the part of Mik, the Myl** team, the webmaster team and the legal folks at Eclipse. As described in...