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This year, EclipseCon is set to take place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, from October 16 to 19, 2023. This year’s conference is already shaping up to be a must-attend event for the entire community. With a new program chair and significant changes to the tracks, EclipseCon 2023 promises to be an...

Last week, we presented the OSC Report, revealing the data behind our call to accelerate the adoption of Open Services Cloud (OSC) in Europe. We held incredible and thought-provoking discussions about the importance of creating technical opportunities and unlocking the European cloud services market. By overcoming the challenges of the...

Cloud services represent a key market for the competitiveness and digital sovereignty of the European Union. Accounting for more than 200 B€ in 2022, European cloud services have a potential for further annual growth of 14% over the next decade. But only if we tackle the existing challenges – if...

The European cloud service market is growing rapidly , reaching nearly €190B in 2022. It's a key enabler in the majority of the 14 strategic industrial ecosystems defined in the 2021 EU industrial strategy and is further forecasted to grow at an annual rate of 13% over the next decade.

EclipseCon is heading back to Ludwigsburg! After two years of virtual editions, we are looking forward to getting the community back together face-to-face. This year’s program will have talks covering the breadth of the Eclipse Foundation ecosystem — from Java, cloud native, web and desktop IDEs, IoT, modeling, quality and...

EclipseCon is the leading conference for developers, architects, and open source business leaders to learn about Eclipse technologies and share best practices. This year it’s taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany, October 24 - 27. Cédric Brun,CEO at Obeo, will be acting as the program committee chair again this year. I...

This week, we’re wrapping up season 1 of the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast. Through seven episodes, we’ve gained new perspectives on how open source can be a key business enabler in several industries and how compa nies with various business models benefit from participating in open source communities. We hope...

On episode six of the podcast, we talked to Dirk Riehle, a professor of open source software at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. Before entering the world of academia, Dirk worked in the software industry for over a decade, including a tenure at SAP Research as the leader of their open...

On the fourth episode of the Entrepreneurial Open Source Podcast, Thabang and I welcomed Miro Spönemann , general manager and software architect at TypeFox. Based in Kiel, Germany, TypeFox helps businesses and engineers become more productive and innovate faster through custom developer tools and languages. Open source frameworks are essential...

Today, four European non-profit open source organizations announced they have joined forces in the OSPO Alliance, and I’m very pleased to tell you the Eclipse Foundation is one of those organizations. By collaborating with the other OSPO Alliance participants, we will help public and private organizations in Europe and around...