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Lots of companies build great products based on Eclipse. This year at EclipseCon, we want to showcase some of new Eclipse-based products that were released in 2010. The Hot New Product Showcase will occur Wednesday night of EclipseCon. EclipseCon attendees will have a chance to see these new products in...

Tomorrow, January 28, is the last day for Eclipse Community Award Nominations. Please remember to take the time to recognize an individual, project or project you think has made a difference in the Eclipse community. We already have some great nominees but I know there are others that deserve the...

For the cycling enthusiast in the Eclipse community, I introduce the one-of-a-kind Eclipse cycling jersey. Imagine how much faster you will go in this sleek new jersey. Imagine the conversation starters you will have explaining the Eclipse project TLAs to your fellow peleton members. Imagine the looks you will get...

Each year the Eclipse Community Awards recognize some of the best Eclipse-based products. Out of the thousands and thousands of applications and tools built on Eclipse, a panel a judges selects a small number of the ‘best’ products in a variety of different categories. This year we have added two...

The Eclipse community is fortunate to have a large diverse community of organizations that participate as members of the Eclipse Foundation. The annual membership fees these companies pay allow the Foundation to provide services to the the Eclipse community. We at the Foundation also look for new ways to increase...

I really appreciate when companies publish the results of their developer surveys. In the open source world, these types of surveys provide an important insight into what developers are using. This is why I was interested to see Zero Turnaround’s recent Java EE productivity Report. It is great to see...

The power of Eclipse is the ability for different vendors to create developer tools that integrate on a common tools platform. In the fast growing mobile developer tools market, we are see a wealth of tools being created on top of the Eclipse platform. Companies like RIM, Nokia, Google Android...

Cate Huston has done an analysis of the Eclipse Summit Europe twitter hashtag (#ese). It is interesting to see the visualization of what people were talking about at ESE. I wonder who was the person with the most tweets and who actually used 5 different clients?

Ever wonder what are the most popular Eclipse plugins? The Eclipse Marketplace is keeping track of the number of times developers install different solutions from the Marketplace Client. The data from last 4+ plus monthsstarts to show what are the most popular Eclipse solutions. Here are the top 10 for...

My recent blog post Changing Nature of Open Source Companies discusses a 451 Group report that describes how corporate open source strategies have been evolving through four different stages. Most companies are now looking at creating and participating in an open development community. As a reminder, the four stages describe...