2009 Candidate:
Dr. Mario Lenz
Chief Technology Officer, empolis
Nominee for Contributing Member representative
For empolis, Eclipse is firstly a mature and powerful tool provider in that a lot of components and tools of eclipse are in intensive use in product development at empolis, e.g. IDE as well as RCP. This is where empolis does not really contribute but rather *consume* only. Secondly, even more important, Eclipse is an intrinsic element of empolis' technology portfolio when it comes to developing a new platform and solutions based on and in cooperation with the open source community. empolis in particular appreciates the unique technological expertise provided by the members combined with the technical flexibility and economical promises of an open source platform that can open the space for commercial applications beyond what is possible in the traditional closed world in particular for a company the size of empolis.
| email: | mario.lenz at empolis.com |
Vision
My vision as a candidate for the Eclipse Board is: - Support the growth of the Eclipse Ecosystem as a pervasive industrial strength software platform for building runtime solutions with a specific focus on Semantic Web technology and unstructured data management. This is the main area of empolis and we feel this is generally still a white spot that should be occupied by open source even before commercial vendors could claim that space. - Help to establish Eclipse in research and education to make sure graduates can seamlessly be integrated into industrial SW production. This also includes provisioning of reday-to-use components and framworks to R&D such that research institutes can truly focus on their expertise rather than having to develop infrastructure technology. - Strengthen the influence of European Solution Members in the community - Help to drive more technology-focussed projects inside eclipse to delivering real value in the sense of customer-oriented solutions
About the Candidate
Dr. Mario Lenz completed his Doctorate in Computer Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin, majoring in Knowledge Management and minoring in Psychology. During his studies, numerous industrial cooperation projects took place. In 1999 Mario became Director of Development at tec:inno. After the integration of tec:inno into empolis and several management positions in product development, Dr. Lenz was appointed CTO and became a member of the empolis management board in 2006.
Affiliation
empolis GmbH