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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...

Every once in a while I am reminded of the lunacy of the Internet, especially headline writers. On Monday of this week, Oracle released an update to the Java 1.6 update 21 that fixes a problem in a previous version that broke Eclipse. All the details can be found in...

Today is a very exciting and important day for the Eclipse community. The Eclipse Platform project has released Eclipse SDK 4.0, the next generation of the Eclipse platform. For technical perspective on the release I point you to Mike Wilson’s excellentt blog post ‘Growing the future’. Congratulations to the entire...

The Eclipse Marketplace Client (MPC) is getting nice reviews from people using the Helios release. I think Zoltan Ujhelyi sums up MPC very nicely: This solution [MPC] is great, because I don’t have to remember/google for the various update site urls, and then manually select the features – if I...

Helios has been out for just over 1 month and it looks like our more successful release to date. As of today we have over 1,373871 download requests, not bad for 33 days after the release. Last year we did 1 million downloads in 27 days. If you are looking...

Earlier this month eWeek published a list of the top 25 Best and Brightest Eclipse projects. Congratulations to all the projects that made it on the list! As with any top ## lists, some worthy projects are missed. What other projects deserved to be in the list?