I read with a great deal of interest the Microsoft Open Specification Promise. It was particularly interesting to read the community feedback and realize that Microsoft has been consciously and conscientiously working with the open source community to develop this document. That’s an important step forward for them, as it...
Congratulations to Eclipse committer Mik Kersten for winning what looks like a very prestigious competition in Singapore. The competition was for PhD students to present business plans on the technology they are building as part of their thesis. As many might know, Mik is the leader of the way cool...
EclipseWorld has come and gone, and now it it’s time to start thinking about the next Eclipse event: Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE). We are expecting that this will be a great opportunity for networking and making new contacts within the Eclipse ecosystem, as there will be many visitors that haven’t...
We are getting ready for the second Eclipse Marketing Symposium on Sept. 20 in Dallas TX. The goal of the symposium is to bring together the marketng and business development professonials of Eclipse Foundation member companies to discuss the best practices of marketing to the Eclipse market. We held the...
I have finally made the move off blogger.com. Most people recommended that I move to wordpress, so here I am. My new blog url is ianskerrett.wordpress.com and my feed stays the same at http://feeds.feedburner.com/IanSkerrett. The move was pretty painless. WordPress has a cool utility for importing all of my blogger.com...
Donald and I were sitting, comfortable and carefree, in the departures lounge at Ottawa International Airport this past Tuesday as we waited for our flight to Boston to attend Eclipse World 2006. Our comfortable and carefree existence was rudely interrupted by somebody (who I sure is very nice) announcing that...
The always insightful James Governor just had an interesting post about Adobe aquiring a company that builds an Eclipse-based Javascript editor. He made an off-the-cuff comment that building Eclipse based software makes M&A a lot easier. You know I think James has a point but I would also add, building...
I have just arrived at Eclipse World in Boston. The tutorials are full and there seems to be a good buzz. If you are at the conference or just located in Boston, please drop by our party tonight and introduce yourself. I also noticed a number of companies are issuing...
Last year, you might recall we had the Million Download Challenge to help celebrate the 3.1 release. This year, due to the denial of service attach during the 3.1 release and Denis’s focus on keeping the web site up and running during the Callisto release, we decided not to run...
We have recently completed the second annual survey of the Eclipse user community. This is a study conducted by Evans Data and is sponsored by the Eclipse Foundation and some member companies. Although most of the study is only available to the sponsored companies, I have posted a small subset...