Blog Posts

    Challenge for A Million

    Thursday, June 2, 2005 - 06:47 by Anonymous (not verified)
    How fast do you think Eclipse 3.1 can reach 1 million downloads? 20, 30, 40 or 50 days? We are thinking of putting this challenge out to the community. If we reach one million downloads in xx days then the Eclipse Foundation will do something special. Not sure what ‘that’...

    He Gets It!

    Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - 19:35 by Mike Milinkovich
    It is always great when the Eclipse community works hard on communicating a new and novel idea and then runs into someone who really understands it. James Governor‘s blog post today on RCP is a great example of that. James is focused on the potential for RCP to dramatically change...

    Briefing industry analysts

    Friday, May 27, 2005 - 11:21 by Anonymous (not verified)
    We are planning to brief some industry analysts on the Eclipse 3.1 launch. We do this to make sure they understand the new news about Eclipse, so they can communicate it to their customers. Their customers tend to be decision makers in the large companies and ISVs. The hope is...

    Eclipse Screencasts

    Friday, May 27, 2005 - 10:58 by Anonymous (not verified)
    As part of the June launch, I would like to make available a series of screencasts featuring the new Eclipse features. The idea is to provide 2-4 minute demos of different Eclipse features. I’ve suggested to each of the projects that this might be a useful way to communicate their...

    Phoenix Starting Point

    Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 11:54 by Mike Milinkovich
    So we are preparing for our Phoenix project Creation Review next week. There has certainly been a lot of interest in this project and in improving the eclipse.org website. If you don’t mind a little strong language, you can check out these comments from one frustrated user. His comments are...

    e-Week Articles on Sun and Eclipse

    Friday, May 20, 2005 - 09:01 by Anonymous (not verified)
    Daryl Taft from e-Week has just published an article ‘ Eclipse Casts Shadow on Sun‘. Although the title is a bit sensational, it is a good review of the Eclipse vs NetBeans discussion. He has also written a follow-up article on Lee Nackman’s explanation of the Eclipse name that he...

    Council Meetings

    Friday, May 20, 2005 - 00:12 by Mike Milinkovich
    So this week in Mike’s excellent travel adventures, I am in Portland, Oregon for the gathering of the Eclipse Councils. We’ve just wrapped up three days of meetings of the Requirements, Architecture and Planning Councils. I am not sure how widely recognized Eclipse is for the ground-breaking work it is...