Standing room only was available at
each of the five keynotes, which were
delivered by prominent leaders in the
developer community. Topics and keynoters
were as follows: "The Eclipse State of the
Union" by Erich Gamma, Eclipse JDT lead
and John Wiegand of the Eclipse Platform,
"Eclipse as a Platform for AOSD Research
and Development" by Gregor Kiczales,
NSERC/Xerox/Sierra Systems Professor of
Software Design, University of British
Columbia, "The Eclipse.org Tipping Point"
by Michael Tiemann, CTO, RedHat, "From IDE
to XDE to CDE" by Grady Booch, Chief
Scientist, IBM Rational and lastly "The
Business of Open Source" by Simon Phipps,
Chief Technology Evangelist for Sun
Microsystems, Inc. In addition, all tutorials were well
attended and the large number of attendees
took advantage of various technical
sessions, sponsor exhibits, technology
exchanges, a poster gallery and
birds-of-a-feather events. EclipseCon 2004
was the first technical conference to
focus on the power of the Eclipse
platform, which recently celebrated its
2-year anniversary. Last week, the Eclipse
organization also announced its
reorganization into a not-for-profit
corporation. Eclipse is now an independent
body made up of over 58 member companies
that will drive the platform's evolution
to benefit the providers of software
development offerings and end-users. With
more than 18 million download requests
recorded since its inception, adoption of
the Eclipse platform continues to
accelerate. EclipseCon 2004 was sponsored by HP,
IBM Rational Software, SAP and Wind River
at the Gold level and by Advanced Systems
Concepts, Candle, Catalyst Systems
Corporation, ETRI, ILOG, INNOOPRACT
Informationssysteme GmbH, Intel
Corporation, MKS, Inc., MontaVista
Software, Ontometrix, Parasoft
Corporation, QNX Software Systems Ltd.,
Scapa Technologies, Serena Software,
SlickEdit Inc., SoftLanding Systems, Inc.
and SourceBeat at the Silver level.
Application Development Trends, CM
Crossroads, Dr. Dobbs Journal,
Embeddedtechnology.com, Open Magazine,
OSDN, Software Development Times and SD
West 2004 were media sponsors. The Object
Management Group™ (OMG™) was the event
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