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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...

We are getting very close to the maximum number of people we can host at Eclipse Summit Europe. There are about 30 spots left, after which we will be full, sold-out. In previous years, we have had 70 plus people register the week before the conference. Unfortunately, this year if...

As a follow-up to my web analytic post, Mark Phippard from Collabnet and Subclipse fame, posted some data they have been collecting from Subclipse. If you don’t know Subclipse, it is the #1 download on the Eclipse Marketplace and a popular Eclipse plugin for Subversion. I am a data junkie...

Dear Oracle, I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community. The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community marketing. I really really want you to succeed and...

This past week I spent some time looking at the web stats, via Google Analytics, for eclipse.org. There are some interesting trends that I thought people might like to see. The following is a comparison of the traffic to http://www.eclipse.org from Sept 20 2009-Oct 20, 2009 and Sept 20, 2010-Oct...