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Harvard Business Review has published a case study titled ‘ Open Source: Salvation or Suicide‘? The focus of the case is a fictitious company that is dealing with the pros and cons of open sourcing their gaming platform. It is great to see Harvard paying attention to open source, however...

The Sun GlassFish team have announced that the upcoming GlassFish v3 release will run on OSGi. This is great news for the OSGi community and for the GlassFish team. If I am not mistaken, now all the major Java application servers are/will be running on an OSGi runtime. It will...

In the theme of vertical open source projects, it is interesting to see Marketcetera’s trading platform. They are providing an open source trading platform for financial institutions. They use Eclipse RCP for the front end order entry application. I am more and more convinced we will see vendors and end-user...

Open Health Tools is a new organization that is being started to create an common and open platform for healthcare products and services. Some interesting things about this organizations: – This is a great example of industry specific organizations collaborating in an open source community. It features Canada Health Infoway...

Le jeudi 29 mai 2008, et pour la troisième année consécutive, se tiendra à Toulouse –à la Cité de l’Espace- le salon EclipseTime, organisé par Anyware Technologies ! Comme chaque année, les interventions seront assurées par des membres de la fondation Eclipse, des représentants de grands comptes et des experts...

Avec quelques jours de retard (il semblerait que l’intégration de p2 ait été assez laborieuse…) voici la cuvée M6 d’Eclipse 3.4 ! Comme pour chaque milestone, voici les nouveautés qui ont particulièrement retenu mon attention : Equinox Beaucoup de sous-projets qui étaient jusqu’alors en incubation ont été gradés et font...

EclipseCon was a great source of new ideas, hard work and community building. For this reason, we are pleased to bring you this great news about e4.

Each year the Eclipse Foundation gives out Eclipse t-shirts at JavaOne. This year we are asking for help to design the shirt. For those Eclipse fashion police, this is your chance to put your money where you mouth is. Please submit your ideas via this bug.

eWeek has published their list of the top 15 Open Source Influencers. I think it represents a pretty good cross section of people that are currently deeply involved with open source software. Of course I am also biased since Mike Milinkovich is #3 on the list. Congrats Mike! Of course...

Each year I try to report on the demographics of the EclipseCon attendees; here are the 2007 and 2006 reports. We collect this information when people register for the conference. It is optional, so not everyone responded but we have about 1300 responses. Years of Experience with Eclipse Similar to...