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We launched Eclipse Labs this past May. The goal was to create a community for Eclipse open source projects that weren’t ‘official’ Eclipse Foundation projects. There is lots of interesting Eclipse related technology being created in open source but there was not an official home. Eclipse Labs was to be...

I am very excited to announce an upcoming event in Zurich, called the Eclipse Enterprise Modeling Day. The focus of this event is to share different users stories and compare best practices for enterprise modeling with Eclipse. Companies like UBS, Bosch, Nord/LB and RWE will present how they use Eclipse...

The first JavaOne, organized by Oracle is now finished. This was definitely a JavaOne very different from those of the past. In fact, I think it is symbolic of how Oracle will operate the Java community moving forward. Some observations from the new JavaOne. A Crappy Location JavaOne was held...

JavaOne is very different this year, especially the exhibit hall. It is much much smaller, in a not so nice hotel ballroom but there are some interesting new products being shown. Some companies and products that caught my eye: Particle Code is showing a mobile development environment that lets you...

Next week I will be attending JavaOne, the first organized by Oracle, and I am really looking forward to it. The last couple of JavaOne conferences were pretty lame in terms of key Java announcements. This year will be Oracle’s chance to set the vision for the future of Java...

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, has penned an interesting post about their involvement and contribution to the open source/free software community. He is responding to some criticism that Canonical is not giving enough back. Mark makes an excellent point that there are many ways to give back and...

Genuitec is a long time member of the Eclipse community, known for their MyEclipse product and more recently their Pulse product. Therefore I was thrilled to hear they have just hit a significant milestone for their Pulse product: 1 million developers. That is great news for Genuitec, congratulations!. It is...

As I mentioned yesterday, we want to encourage people to tell their Eclipse story. Last week Cell Biosciences told their story at the Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. You can view their entire presentation but I have added a summary on the Eclipse Story wiki and below. btw, Cell Biosciences...

Lots of people are doing incredible things with Eclipse. People are building amazing applications that embedded Eclipse technology. Companies have standardized on Eclipse as their development tools platform. Students and researchers are using Eclipse for creating some very cool new technology. As with any open source community, sharing information is...

Last Thursday, Google was the host of the third Eclipse Day at the Googleplex. I look forward to this event each year and this year was another success. Over 150 people attended the day long event that included 12 sessions related to Eclipse and Google technology. The presentations are now...