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Les sessions de DemoCamps approchent à grand pas, et la déclinaison française se déroulera cette année à Toulouse ! “Ah super, mais un DemoCamp c’est quoi ?!?” me direz-vous… Et bien c’est un évènement, plutôt informel, permettant à chacun de présenter des projets basés sur Eclipse, d’échanger ses idées, ses...

The Ganymede release is less than three weeks away, so it is time to crank up the Ganymede hype marketing machine. As usual, we are trying a mix of community outreach, press and analyst outreach and promotion of the specific projects. Here are some of the key things: 1. We...

BZ Media does a great job organizing the annual Eclipse World conference. This year is is Oct. 28-30 in Reston, VA, same place as last year. They have just announced their technical program and it looks really strong. If you are building enterprise Java applications with Eclipse, there is a...

Things seem to be heating up around the compatibility between OSGi and JSR 277, in particular the different version numbering schemes. Peter Kriens, Alex Blewitt provide some good commentary for the OSGi scheme and Stanley Ho defends the proposed JSR 277 scheme. However, Hal Hildebrand, the Oracle OSGi guru, provides...

The Ganymede RC2 Packages are now available for testing. Ganymede is a short 3 weeks away, so the clock is ticking on testing out these packages. Also, thank you for all the feedback we have received on the new packaging site. There is still time for more comments but that...

Next week I will be traveling to Germany for two events: 1) the OSGi community event in Berlin and 2) a Marketing Stammtisch in Bensheim/Auerbach. The OSGi event has a great technical program and I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the people in the OSGi community. OSGi...

Hockey season is just about to finish, which mean Canadians are about to begin our second season: summer. Sys-con just published a pretty good interview with Mike Milinkovich to mark his 4th anniversary at the Foundation. Among discussions on Mike’s view of ‘Strategy as Ecology’ and ‘The Stackless Stack’, Mike...

In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed CIO.com is doing a great job highlighting and educating their readers on open source software. They just published the results of a reader survey about open source adoption in the enterprise which showed 53% are using open source today in their...

No not that p2 – P2 the movie. Given the discussion about our p2, I just couldn’t resist. I know the p2 team is working extremely hard to make p2 a killer feature. Making any change as significant as p2 will always strike fear in people, including me. However, one...

The latest shiny new toy in the social networking area seems to be twitter. If you haven’t heard of twitter, think of it as really small blog posts (140 char limit) and the ability to follow other people’s ‘tweets’. I’ve spent the last couple of months participating in twitter. I...