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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...

Thanks to Darrin for the pointer to Steve Yegge’s excellent OSCON presentation on marketing and branding. A video recording of the presentation is online. There are three points from Steve’s presentation that I think are important to consider: 1) Branding is important and software people need to think about it...

Last week, LinuxWatch and eWeek published an article ‘ Linux developers considering move to Eclipse‘. The article summarizes a breakout session at the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. The result of the session was: [….], it was decided to start making Eclipse, the open-source development platform, the Visual Studio for...

As a follow-up to my post about China being our #1 country for downloads, Denis made the point that we have only one mirror in China; thanks to Actuate. Given, we are getting ready for the Europa release, this would be a great time to add some mirrors in China...

I am pleased to announce a new open source conference for the Eclipse community, called OS Summit Asia. The conference is scheduled for Nov. 26-30 and will be located in Hong Kong. The really exciting thing for me is that this conference is being organized as a collaboration between the...

I have been looking around to find references to Eclipse when it was first launched. There is lots of stuff but here are some of the more interesting things: the original press release announcing the eclipse.org consortium thanks to the Wayback machine, the eclipse.org web site, circa Sept. 25, 2001...