Eclipse exec: Platform upgrade a blank slate
,----[ Quote ]
| One of the knocks against Java for the last couple of years has
| been because it was a proprietary technology, that it was not
| something that many free software and open source people were
| interested in using. [Free Software Foundation President]
| Richard Stallman wrote the "Java Trap" article, for example.
| By making it open source, it brings it into a broader community
| and reinvigorates the ecosystem around it, and it hopefully
| will attract even more developers and greater innovation.
`----
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070313/tc_infoworld/86746
Other 'open source' news (they are not truly "Open Source":
GroundWork and Actuate to Deliver Industry's First Open Source IT Management
Reporting Framework
,----[ Quote ]
| Under the terms of the agreement, Actuate will support GroundWork
| developers using Actuate BIRT Report Designer Pro to develop detailed
| SLA reports that will be deployed with the open source Eclipse BIRT
| Report Engine within GroundWork Monitor Professional.
`----
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070313/20070313005301.html?.v=1
Related:
Developers' use of open source Eclipse doubles
,----[ Quote ]
| The adoption rate of the open source Eclipse integrated development
| environment has more than doubled in the Europe, the Middle East and
| Africa region, industry analysts have revealed.
`----
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/12/12/220548/developers-use-of-open-source-eclipse-doubles.htm
Developers Embrace Java, Drop Visual Basic
,----[ Quote ]
| Use of Visual Basic has dropped 35% since the spring, says a
| poll of more than 430 North American developers done by research
| company Evans Data.
|
| [...]
|
| Developers have abandoned Microsoft's Visual Basic in droves
| during the last six months, and they're using Java more than any
| other development language, according to a recently published
| survey.
`----
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196600515
Google joins Eclipse Foundation
,----[ Quote ]
| Google's Open Source Program Office (including Greg Stein, Chris
| DiBona, and Zaheda Bhorat) pulled the deal together between Google
| and the Eclipse Foundation in October.
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=214
Five Years On: The Future of Eclipse
,----[ Quote ]
| Even IBM admits it didn't expect its Eclipse open source project for
| building enterprise Java tools would grow as fast as it did.
|
| [...]
|
| By January of 2004, Eclipse was re-organized as an open source
| foundation and an independent organization.
`----
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3642326
Eclipse Is Still Going Strong
,----[ Quote ]
| In the intervening years, the Eclipse open-source development
| platform has grown well beyond the IDE space, branching out into
| areas such as reporting, modeling, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript
| and XML) development, SOA (service-oriented architecture) tooling,
| RCP (rich-client platform) technology, team development, and
| support for other languages beyond Java.
`----
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20061107/tc_zd/193207
Eclipse: A Billion-Dollar Baby?
,----[ Quote ]
| "Historically enterprise software has been sold through [a]
| direct salesforce channel. ... We're starting to see success
| in open source software products in areas which have been
| traditionally the realm of the direct salesforce. Those
| environments or those products have very, very low cost of
| sales, so as customers get more used to that, I think that
| over time, there are going to be fewer and fewer software
| salesmen."
`----
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/53621.html
Eclipse Adoption on The Rise
,----[ Quote ]
| With the EclipseWorld conference kicking off this week in Boston,
| it would be easy to think the open source Java tools project is
| everywhere.
`----
http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3630071
|
|