Sustainability

While IDE usage declines, the underlying Eclipse Platform technologies remain mature and widely deployed. Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and many of the components delivered through the Eclipse Simultaneous Release are embedded in a large number of commercial products, including industrial software, engineering tools, embedded platforms, and other long lived...

From enterprise applications to developer tools, open source software powers innovation, accelerates time-to-market, and enables collaboration across industries and geographies. At the Eclipse Foundation, we are proud to steward a global ecosystem of thousands of individuals and over 300 organisations working together to build and sustain critical technologies. But this...

Within the Eclipse Foundation’s community, we believe in technology as a force for good. Eclipse open source projects are used by millions of developers worldwide, and are supported by more than 2,000 dedicated committers in over 50 countries. The technologies under our stewardship are accessible to all and adaptable across...

Encouraged by the questions being asked, the Eclipse Foundation recently participated in an open and transparent process initiated by the US Office on the National Cyber Director, in collaboration with three federal agencies with stakes in setting policies and priorities for securing open source software as critical infrastructure. Specifically, they...

Recently, the streaming data analytics startup Confluent announced that it had closed a $125 million Series D funding round. With the company’s value pegged at $2.5 billion, Confluent became the latest open source “unicorn.” To say that the open source community is on a roll would be an understatement. In...