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Last week, I had the pleasure of chatting with some senior technical people from Infor, the third largest ERP vendor. The topic of the conversation was Infor’s use of Eclipse Virgo as the base technology for their next generation middleware platform, called ION. ION is event-driven middleware that makes it...

Next week is JavaOne and in a strange way I am looking forward to attending. I actually think Oracle is finally getting its groove around Java. There seems to be an energy that I am hoping will materialize next week. The keynotes are often an important barometer for setting the...

I am pleased to announce we are having our fourth Eclipse Day at the Googleplex on November 30th. Each year this event highlights some Eclipse projects and products being created by Google that are based on Eclipse. This year we have sessions on the Android Development Tools, Google Plugin for...

Next year at EclipseCon 2012 we are introducing a new co-located conference called Agile ALM Connect. As the name hopefully conveys, this conference will focus on the tools and methods that make software developers and teams more successful across the entire lifecycle. I believe this is the perfect time and...

Eclipse is turning 10 this November and we want to have a BIG party. EclipseCon Europe will kick-off for the celebration but we want to have birthday parties around the world. In fact, I would like to see at least 50 parties in different countries around the world. 10 years...

We are putting together plans for the Eclipse 10th Birthday. One thing we would like to have is a nice graphic that we can use on our web site and maybe on t-shirts. If you are graphically inclined and have some ideas, I have started a CrowdSpring project to solicit...

Today we hit our goal of 500 Friends of Indigo. Thank you to everyone that participated. Your contribution and support of the Eclipse community is definitely appreciated. Of course you can still join our Friends of Eclipse at anytime of the year. And who was #500, that honour goes to...

In November, the Eclipse community will be celebrating 10 years since Eclipse was made available for download. At LOT has happened during those 10 years so we want to celebrate. The big party will be at EclipseCon Europe but we want to do more. Right now I am looking for...

In the last week I am very pleased to announce CloudBees and Jaspersoft have both joined as a member of the Eclipse Foundation and both released new solutions for Eclipse developers. For some people, it might be a surprise to have these companies join the Eclipse Foundation since they are...

Project #5 in my series of new projects on the Indigo release train is Jubula. Achim Lorke, the project leader from Jubula kindly answered my four questions. 1. What does your project provide to an Eclipse user? Jubula provides automated functional GUI testing for Java and HTML applications. It is...