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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...

One aspect of the marketing discipline I don’t like is when marketeers spend considerable amount of time and money investing in logo designs, names, colors and tag lines. I used to work for a company where the VP Marketing claimed the new logo and look was going dramatically propel the...

This has been a really good week for the EclipseRT runtime strategy. There were three announcements that indicate we are making good progress for establishing Eclipse as a community for creating innovative runtime technology based on OSGi. 1. Project Virgo was announced and proposed this week by SpringSource. As Mike...

The EclipseCon Program Committee will be hard at work over the holidays. They have until January 9 to review 430+ submissions and select about 150 talks for the final program. Given the success of my recommendations for the Early Submissions, I thought why not give them a helping hand. My...

The next step for Eclipse Marketplace (MP) is bringing MP direct to the Eclipse user desktop. We want to build a MP client that will be distributed in all of the Helios EPP packages. Instead of navigating to a separate web site, the Eclipse user will have an integrated user...

Last night was the deadline to have your EclipseCon session proposal considered by the Program Committee (PC) for one of the 5 early bird selections. The good news is the PC now has 131 sessions to consider, the bad news is they have to make the selection by December 14th...

Chris Aniszczyk has written how we have been doing more to solicit financial donations from the community. In particular, we’ve added the Donate Now buttons to our download pages; which happen to be our high traffic pages. Chris raises a good question on how far we should go with our...