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Equinox and OSGi were definitely the buzz of EclipseCon. Now it is great to see a new German book ‘ The OSGi Service Platform – An introduction with Eclipse Equinox‘ about to be published. There is a lot of interest in Germany about Equinox so this book should do very...

EclipseCon is done but there is one last party, the European party. Lots of people asked me about the number of people from Europe, so I thought it would be interesting to post the breakdown of attendees by country. Thank you to everyone that made the long trip to Santa...

I spent sometime in the exhibit hall talking to vendors and seeing a number of companies showing off brand new Eclipse based products. First stop was at the AMD booth to see their CodeSleuth product, a Java profiling tool that they have open source. RIM has also announced their new...

In addition to the Equinox announcement, we did a second press release that I think it is very significant and a great example of open source and open standards working together. EclipseLink has been chosen by Sun to be the reference implementation for JPA 2.0. The Glassfish team has also...

Tonight we announced the winners of the Eclipse Community Awards. The winners this year represent a great cross-section of the Eclipse community. In the individual category, Ed Merks, blogger/photographer/modeler extraordinaries won the Top Ambassador Chris Aniszczyk (zx) of PDE fame took the Top Committer Remy Suen, a student at the...

The news at EclipseCon is something the Eclipse community has been doing for a while but not a lot of people know about it. The press announcement at EclipseCon is our new runtime initiative: the creation of the top-level Eclipse RT project and a new Equinox Community. Those who watch...

I just finished registering for EclipseCon and took a look through the flyers in the registration bag. One thing I noticed is the number of cool giveaways, so as a service to all EclipseCon attendees, here is the unofficial EclipseCon Guide to Free Stuff. AMD is giving away 1GB flash...

Things are looking great for next week at EclipseCon. Most of my time has been focused on the press outreach but this year I am also moderator two panels. On the press side, we have finished the pre-briefs of the editors and I look forward to seeing some great stories...

Sam Ramji from MS is a keynote speaker at EclipseCon. Today at the MS MIX conference he let slip that MS was going to be making some announcements at EclipseCon about working with Eclipse. Microsoft seems to be making some visible moves about working with the open source community. This...