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Wow, we have received over 200 concepts for a new Eclipse logo. Some I really like, some are just ugly. Now we need to start narrowing the choices so we can make a decision. We are going to do two rounds of community voting to determine if it makes sense...

It is always nice to be recognized with industry awards, so I take great pleasure in the fact the Eclipse Foundation was recognized as a ‘Company to Watch’ but Intelligent Enterprise. I especially like their conclusion ‘Eclipse is the tail that now wags enterprise software development.’ From Intelligent Enterprise: Eclipse...

Last week we officially proposed a new Eclipse project to create an client for the Eclipse Marketplace. As I described late last year, the next step for Marketplace is to integrate Marketplace directly into each Eclipse installation. We want to make it as easy as possible for Eclipse users to...

It goes without saying Cloud Computing is a very popular topic in the tech industry. Beyond the marketing hype, cloud computing is changing the way applications are built and deploy. As most people know, OSGi is the component standard used by Eclipse and has many implications for deploying Eclipse-based applications...

One of the first things Oracle announced after they completed the Sun acquisition was that JavaOne would continue but in September (in parallel to Oracle’s existing user conference). Lots of people in the Eclipse community like to speak at JavaOne, so I thought people would like to know the JavaOne...

We are looking at modernizing the Eclipse logo. I kicked off the process a couple of weeks ago and we received some interesting suggestions. However, I felt we needed to get more variety and more graphic designers involved, so I started a project on CrowdSpring and offered a $500 bounty...

We are in the midst of judging the product categories for the Eclipse Community Awards. It turns out we received only two nominations for the EclipseRT Application category. The judges have decided they would like to see more nominees, so we have re-opened nominations in this category until February 17...

Congratulations to the Eclipse PDT team for their top score on the recent InfoWorld review of PHP IDE’s. Out of 8 PHP IDE’s reviewed, PDT tied for top marks. The other top IDE was Zend Studio, of course based on Eclipse. The PDT project team and Zend have done a...

The 1.0 release of e4 is planned for July 2010. Obviously, this is an important milestone for the Eclipse community. The e4 development team is doing a great job building the next generation Eclipse platform. However, as we all know, any new technology also needs evangelism, education and promotion. People...

What do the following people have in common? Ed Burnette, Linda Watson, Alain Magilore, Chris Aniszczyk, Kimberley Peter, Tim Schindl, Ed Merks, Dainel Megert, Remy Chi Suen, Eric Rizzo, Nick Boldt, Paul Webster, and Benjamin Cabe. Or the following products: Gumtree, Lombardi TeamWorks, RadRails, BEA Worksship Studio, Jigsaw Interactive, PSICAT...