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It has been my belief that the next big thing for open source software (OSS) will be creating industry specific tools, frameworks and platforms. OSS is well established in the tools and middleware stacks but a lot of the benefits are also applicable to software higher up the stack. Recently...

We now have 1000 plug-ins listed on EPIC. This is a significant milestone and we appreciate everyone that has published their products, open source projects and services on EPIC. I know there are many more Eclipse based products that are not listed on EPIC, so please feel free to add...

Today, we announced a new program that allows individuals to make financial donations to the Eclipse Foundation. We have hooked up a PayPal account that allows you to use a credit card or PayPal account to make a donation to Eclipse. We have also started a program called ‘Friends of...

The Eclipse community is very good at enabling innovation networks. Eclipse provides the ability for individuals and groups to create collaborative communities that drive innovation in a specific area. CDT is a great example but another up and coming project that appears to have an interesting community of committers is...

Based on my initial post, we now have Eclipse DemoCamps being organized in 14 cities around the world, including Budapest, Beijing, Sofia, Chicago, Ottawa, Palo Alto, Toronto and others. The goal of the DemoCamps is to organize local events where individuals can show off the interesting things they are doing...

We are announcing the 1.0 release of Eclipse Rich Ajax Platform (RAP) on Monday. I find the press releases I’ve been writing lately have been kind of boring. I also found this press release recently announced on O’Reilly Radar very refreshing. Therefore, I decided to write an alternative press release...

Technology partnering has always been an important aspect of the software industry. Customers typically want a ‘complete’ solution and look to their vendors to ensure they work well with each other. IMHO, I think Eclipse has made the partnering process a lot easier and there are two good example of...

SD Times just did a special report titled ‘ Can Linux Get a Lift from Eclipse‘. Hmm, not sure about the title but the report is pretty decent and the general conclusion is that Eclipse is ideally suited for cross platform development; native, hard core Linux developers will probably stay...

SAP is holding their big developer conference this week in Las Vegas. Seems like SAP is showing off some cool new tools based on Eclipse. Jeff Nolan has an interesting recap of the executive keynote and the demo of SAP’s Composition Environment, which is based on Eclipse. Jeff also discussed...

As Wayne pointed out, RAP is hot. However, PDT is also generating a lot of attention. We just finished a webinar on PDT 1.0 and had over 170 attendees; a record for our Eclipse Live webinar series. In case you missed it, you can playback the recording here. I also...