Blog Posts

This week both Donald and I are at the Open Source Business Conference ( OSBC West). Steve O’Grady already blogged on his impressions of yesterday’s events. For those that have never been to an OSBC, it is a fairly unique show. There are basically equal numbers of lawyers, venture capitalists...

Yesterday was the deadline for the early bird registration price for EclispeCon. We now have 800 people registered. A great number since we still have over 4 weeks to go! Last year we sold out at 1000 attendees, so I can see us easily going pass that mark. I am...

We wrapped up the first leg of our Eclipse in Motion roadshow last week with stops in San Diego (Tuesday) and Dallas (Thursday). I had a great time and I’m pretty sure everybody who attended did. One thing that I’ve noticed about Eclipse events that are different from most other...

Both my wife and my mother would agree that I am terrible with this stuff. I meant to post this on the date, really I did! February 2, 2004 is the date we use as the birthday for the independently governed Eclipse Foundation, as that’s the date it was officially...

This week, Borland made some very audacious moves when they announced an acquisition of Segue and a divestiture of their IDE tools business. As others have commented, this does not mean the end of JBuilder or Delphi, but these are certainly bold and strategic moves. I can still recall using...

Simon Phipps wrote an interesting blog post musing about the how the Japanese business model of interlocking companies ( keiretsu) and the long tail intersect to describe the functionings of open source communities. Basically, the idea is that open source communities can be described as “code keiretsus around a long...

I thought I would mention a few early thoughts on the GPLv3 progress, and the impact it may have on the Eclipse community. (In other words, I am most emphatically not talking about the merits of the Free Software Foundation (FSF)’s proposed GPL revisions in general.) Janet Campbell from the...

Now there’s a company that know how to treat its developers. 2400 hundred technical people (1200 from out of town) all in the San Jose Convention Centre. That is a non-trivial investment of time and money into team building. But if you’re going to work in a distributed environment, it...

Ed has updated his Eclipse RCP tutorial series to reflect changes in Eclipse 3.1.2. If you’re getting started with RCP, start here.

EclipseCon is rapidly approaching, less than six week away! I have my hotel booked but still need to get airline tickets. We are putting a big push on this week to have people register before February 14. After this date the registration prices start to go up. So if you...