Thabang Mashologu's blog

Community is key. And the Eclipse Foundation’s community is on a roll. With all the work of the various working groups, market launches, and now awards, it’s sometimes an effort just to keep up with all the activity. This month is no exception. Last night at the Oracle Code One...

I am happy to announce that Shabnam Mayel has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Senior Marketing Lead, Cloud Native Java. Shabnam brings with her several years of diverse marketing, business development, and technical sales experience. Most recently, she led marketing and brand management initiatives for tech startups in Southeast...

EclipseCon Europe is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies, share best practices, and more. Taking in place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 21-24, 2019, ECE 2019 is our biggest event of the year and connects the Eclipse ecosystem and the industry’s...

The world’s leading innovators in Java, including Fujitsu, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Payara, Red Hat, and Tomitribe, are collaborating at the Eclipse Foundation to advance enterprise Java technologies to support the migration of mission-critical applications to the cloud. Jakarta EE and Eclipse MicroProfile offer a path for migrating Java EE legacy...

I am happy to announce that Gabriela Motroc has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Content Marketing Specialist based in Germany. Gabriela joins us from the Software & Support Media Group, where she was an editor of JAXenter.com and JAX Magazine. She is well known to many in the Eclipse...

The Jakarta EE 2019 Developer Survey, organized by the Jakarta EE Working Group, is now closed. The survey wrapped up at midnight on Monday, March 25, with over 1,770 responses from developers around the globe. Truly an outstanding response from an amazing community! Thank you all for taking the time...

The Eclipse IoT Working Group is pleased to launch the 2019 IoT Developer Survey. If you are involved in developing Internet of Things solutions and services, we want to hear from you! The purpose of the survey is to gain a better understanding of the requirements, priorities, and perceptions of...

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...

Just in time for the Eclipse 5.1 GA release January 29, 2019, we are happy to announce that our new Jakartablogs.ee blog aggregator is live! Jakartablogs.ee is the new blog home for our global community to stay up to date on the latest Jakarta EE news, technologies, best practices, and...

2018 has been a busy year so far! The Eclipse Foundation introduced a new Foundation logo, revamped the www.eclipse.org website, launched the Jakarta EE brand, and the list goes on. We are excited to launch the 2018 edition of our brand survey. The survey will run until December 14, 2018...