I’m up to #3 in the “ Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse” posted in the Eclipse 2.0 timeframe by Renaud Waldura. If you’re curious, part one is here, and part two is here. #3 – Eclipse Has Momentum Although Eclipse is an open-source platform, it isn’t the only one. A...
Not all of the Eclipse and OSGi news is happening at EclipseCon. IBM and Cisco just announced at Voicecon a client platform for unified communication and collaboration. Great to see Cisco getting behind Eclipse and OSGi.
Last night we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. Congratulations to Chris, Ed, Kimberly, Tom and Daniel for winning the individual awards. I am thrilled to see QNX Momentics, TIBCO Business Studio, PSICAT, eclipse-cs Checkstyle and JP Morgan win in the technology award categories. There were lots of...
Yesterday, I started blogging about a old blog entry I found titled “Ten Reasons to Use Eclipse”. Our fantastically gifted webmaster, Denis, found the original post which helped us to discover that the poster’s name is Renaud Waldura. Today, I’d like to talk briefly about reason #2. To quote: #2...
Today, while walking through the halls of EclipseCon, I ran into Ed Klimas. I’ve known Ed for years. His former company, Linea Engineering, and my former company, The Object People, did a lot of work together in the 90s, but it’s been years since we’ve seen each other. Ed’s yet...
I came across this blog posting a few days ago. The date on the posting is recent, but the content makes me believe that it’s a repost of something considerably older. If you look carefully at the text and images, it’s pretty clear that the author is talking about Eclipse...
Much to my dismay, it looks like Jonathan Schwartz has denied us the opportunity for a return engagement of the NetBeans Girls. Roumen was kind enough to make a plea for us to his management but came back with a rather lame excuse; they actually want Eclipse to pay for...
The week before EclipseCon is typically for me the second busiest week of the year; the busiest being EclipseCon. Most of my time is spent preparing for the press; although in previous years I’ve also been responsible for the exhibitors but this year Donald has done a great job. I...
In this podcast, Jeff McAffer, Eclipse Equinox Project Lead, discusses Eclipse membership in the OSGi Alliance, the factors motivating the adoption of OSGi as the component model for Eclipse, the cool places that OSGi turns up, and the rosy future of OSGi and Equinox. Unfortunately, the recording quality of this...