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The Eclipse community suffered a great loss this weekend with the passing of Kim Clohessy. Within Eclipse, Kim was one of the leaders of the Open Healthcare Framework project. But for many of us who have deep roots with OTI, Kim had been a friend, mentor and colleague for many...

I just came across this post on John O’Shea’s blog. I think it raises a very interesting point: Unfortunately, Eclipse.org is also starting to exhibit similar cracks. A cursory look at the architectures of many of the top level projects (WTP, STP, TPTP, BIRT etc.) shows the lack of intra-project...

I get to join Ian at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) this week. I spent several hours today walking the exhibit floor looking for Eclipse-based tools and products. They’re everywhere! I am really miffed with myself for forgetting to bring my camera. Just a partial list of companies showing Eclipse-based...

Last year for the Eclipse Community Project Spot Light panel, we collected questions from the community to ask the PMC leaders. If you would like to provide us with a question, please do one of the following: Add it as a comment to the talk. Send me an email at...

So here are my personal EclipseCon 2006 highlights so far: The Sun team promoting NetBeans out front. Hilarious! I’m proud to say that I’ve got my full allotment of NetBeans kit: one CD and one bottle of water. Joel Spolsky’s keynote. It’s been a long time since I’ve laughed as...

I have to admit that I really enjoy EclipseCon. OK, so I’ve only been to one of the two so far, but last year really was a killer conference. As of last night we were just about at 1200 registrations, so we know for sure that this year’s event is...

I have seen more than a few references to Tim O’Reilly‘s post on IDE buzz. I actually thought that Tim’s post was well written and thoughtfully speculative. No one can reasonably take issue with statements like: I don’t really follow the IDE wars, but this result surprised me, so I...

The new elected reperesentatives on the Eclipse Board of Directors as of April 1 will be: Committer Representatives: Scott Lewis (*) Kai-Uwe Maetzel (*) Jeff McAffer Tim Wagner Add-In Provider Representatives: Jochen Krause Howard Lewis (*) Mike Taylor Todd Williams (*) I would also like to recognize the contribution of...

Anyone interested in my previous comments regarding the Higgins announcement should also read Bob Sutor’s post that so eloquently lays to rest much of the hyperbole concerning this announcement.

No, I am not talking about one of my all-time favourite B movies. I’m talking about the Higgins announcement today. (Higgins being both a project at Eclipse and a Tasmanian long-tailed mouse.) In the press release, IBM, Novell and Parity Communications announced support for the Eclipse Higgins project. The announcement...