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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>

BEA Systems and Sybase also joined the board.

http://news.com.com/Eclipse+lights+up+Java+crowd/2100-7344_3-5590847.html?tag=n
efd.lede

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A little more than a year ago, detractors painted the Eclipse open-source
project as nothing more than a ploy by IBM to sell its own software. Today, by
most accounts, it's the center of innovation in the Java tools industry.

On Monday, a sold-out EclipseCon conference will open and, unlike last year's
inaugural meeting, IBM technical gurus will not be the center of attention.

Instead, the open-source foundation will fete its newest board members--IBM
rivals BEA Systems, Sybase and Borland International--and detail the expanding
list of development-related projects under Eclipse's purview.

"Eclipse is definitely the dominant Java tools platform," said Thomas Murphy,
an analyst at the Meta Group. "And increasingly, the Eclipse organization will
be pushing this message of a general-purpose platform."

IBM founded the Eclipse consortium in November 2001 with $40 million in seed
money and a substantial donation in code. Today, the group has 91 members,
including most of the largest software companies. And it produces what is now
the most popular Java development tool, according to Evans Data.

Eclipse became an independent nonprofit foundation, spun off from IBM, one year
ago. That independence helped fuel its momentum, as vendors such as BEA, which
once stayed clear of Eclipse, began jumping on board....
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 /m


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:41:39 +0000, Adam Flinton <adam@NOSPAM_softfab.com>
wrote:

>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3486021
>
>Yet another heads to eclipse.....this time it's Phillipe Kahn's boys
>
>Hurrah...
>
>"Borland (Quote, Chart) is taking a bigger stake in the organization it
>helped found, joining the Eclipse Foundation's board of directors as a
>strategic developer, officials will announce in a press conference
>Monday at EclipseCon 2005 in Burlingame, California.
>
>The software delivery provider is also preparing to propose a project
>based on its software delivery optimization (SDO) initiative.
>
>As a strategic developer, Borland will pay a yearly $250,000 fee to the
>organization as well as provide eight full-time developers to support
>the foundation. The company was one of the original nine organizations
>that formed the board of stewards after IBM (Quote, Chart) donated the
>code that formed the basis for Eclipse.
>
>The Scotts Valley, Calif., software development company is parlaying its
>new leadership role to launch a project within the open source
>development organization. Officials said they would submit a proposal
>for a graphical modeling framework sub-project of the Eclipse Technology
>project. It is based on the technology used in Together, the modeling
>foundation for Borland's software delivery optimization (SDO) initiative. "
>
>I wonder how long before delphi is an eclipse plugin....
>
>Adam

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