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As already reported by Ed Brill and others, this is, I think, truly high praise from Stephen O’Grady of RedMonk for the capabilities of Eclipse RCP: Notes 8 client is, simply put, one of the nicer looking Eclipse RCP based clients I’ve seen to date, on par with what Microsoft...

As I mentioned on Monday, incubating projects now have the ability to start developing in parallel with the IP review and approval process. That’s clearly good news for all those new projects eager to get a fast start once they’ve been created. In the same Board meeting where this new...

So the big news in RCP-land this week is coming from Lotusphere, where there is much talk about Eclipse-based rich clients. Check out this screenshot gallery of the next version of Lotus Notes based on Eclipse RCP. This is an awesome demonstration of the ability of RCP to enable compelling...

I have some very good news for new projects at Eclipse. At the board meeting last week, an important revision to the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy was approved. Under the new revision, projects which are in incubation — and which are clearly marking their webpages and downloads as such —...

I just stumbled across the news that the GCJ team is now using the Eclipse Compiler for Java as the front end to GCJ. This is pretty darn cool. ECJ is a rock-solid and highly regarded technology. I’m glad to see it getting even more adoption. It has been used...

This is rather cool. As noted by Nat Torkington, Dave Thomas has just been recognized by the ACM as a Distinguished Engineer. Dave was the founder of OTI, which after it was acquired by IBM eventually became the core development team for Eclipse. Other than my family, he’s probably had...

As has already been reported by eWeek, InfoWorld and Linux Watch the Eclipse Foundation is going through the process of joining three different standards organizations: the Java Community Process ( JCP), the Object Management Group ( OMG) and the OSGi Alliance. I guess that we should be flattered that Eclipse...

So one last (and somewhat belated) post related to the Eclipse 5th birthday celebrations. As many of you may already know, over the past month or so we tracked down the 65 or so people who were the original founders of both the Eclipse Project and the Eclipse Consortium and...

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. I have no idea why, but this question has come up in several different emails to the “license at eclipse.org” mail id this week. Maybe it’s because of Sun’s recent announcement that it was releasing Java under the GPL. The question has been asked...

So congratulations are clearly in order for Simon Phipps, one of my favourite sparring partners. I’m sure that when he started at Sun to open source Java he had no idea what a long and winding road it would be. I definitely applaud his perseverance. This was certainly a bold...