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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...

Each year people are mad/shocked/angry/disappointed/sad their talk did not get selected for EclipseCon. Unfortunately, each year we have a limited numbers of speaking spots and typically 3-4 times the number of proposals. The Program Committee (PC) does their best to select talks they feel will be of most interest to...

Hot off the press, Apple and Oracle just announced that: Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for...

Matt Aslett, from 451 Group, is one of the best analysts in the industry for studying the business strategies of companies related to open source. His 2008 report ‘ Open Source is Not a Business Model’ correctly pointed out that companies did not just use open source but used a...

November is the season for Eclipse Demo Camps. We have 30 different demo camps organized in cities around the world. For the first time we have a number of Campus Demo Camps organized to reach out to the academic and student communities. I’d love to attend all the demo camps...

Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) 2010 was a great success. I really enjoyed meeting old and new friends in the Eclipse community. The final attendance numbers was 467 attendees, a sell out! Each year we ask the attendees to answer some questions so we can get an appreciation of who is...

The Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day was held yesterday in Zurich. We had over 100 people from 50 different companies in attendance. All the feedback was very positive and a lot of gratitude to UBS for being wonderful hosts. UPDATE: Christian Meier from UBS did a very nice summary of the...