OSTG, the folks that produce Sourceforge have launched the new Eclipse.Techforge.com. SourceForge has already been the home for hundreds of interesting Eclipse related open source projects, so it is great to see them start a specific channel for Eclipse. Philippe Ombredanne from nexb is the editor of the site. I...
I just info from Denis (Eclipse webmaster) that part of the reason the site was slow was that we were hit by a DDOS attack at the same time the 3.1 release went up. Denis has dealt with that and the site is running better now. Hopefully we can get...
Well, Luis beat me to the punch, but Eclipse 3.1 is released and ready to go! We’ve doubled the bandwidth at http://www.eclipse.org, so hopefully the Million Download Challange will make me pay up big time to my favourite charity. I would really like to thank the platform team for all...
3.1 has been declared and the count to a million has started. It is still not to late to join the Million Download Challenge.
Day 1 at JavaOne was a lot of fun. The Eclipse booth was busy and we gave away a lot of T-shirts. In good fun, we even had Roumen Strobl from the NetBean’s team come by to collect his Eclipse T-shirt. I am sure he will wear it proudly back...
Well dropping by the Eclipse booth this afternoon really made my day. On the first day of the exhibit hall being open, the interest in the Eclipse Passport and the Eclipse t-shirts has been awesome. When I dropped by there was a line of at least twenty people there waiting...
Next week is going to be pretty busy. Eclipse 3.1 will be released. Don’t forget to sign-up for the Million Download Challenge. Ed Burnette has started a pool on when 3.1 will be declared. I’ll predict June 27. JavaOne is shaping up to be very busy. I will be spending...
Companies are starting to roll out their JavaOne announcements. It is great to see companies like JBoss and Borland highlight their Eclipse strategies. I was also pleasantly surprise to see e-Bay announce an open source initaitive, including an Eclipse plug-in. Next week, I know more companies are making some pretty...
Next Monday we are going to issue 3 press releases at JavaOne: 1)Release 1 will discuss the launch of 3.1 and the other project release, such as Web Tools, TPTP, etc., 2) Release 2 will highlight Eclipse RCP and 3) Release 3 will announce the 100th organization to join Eclipse...
Eclipse will be giving away Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne. All thanks to the cooperation and sponsorship of 12 Eclipse member companies: Actuate, Agitar, BEA, Catalyst/Openmake, Compuware, Datamirror, Enerjy, Exadel, JBoss, M7, Parasoft and Sybase. As with all good things in life, nothing is completely free. To receive a t-shirt, all...