Momentum Builds as Eclipse Eco-System Grows
- Consortium Grows to 30 Members in First Year
- Three New Open Source Projects Form
- Download Requests Top 3.1 million
December 16, 2002 - Today, the Eclipse Consortium announced that it has
welcomed thirteen new supporting member companies and organizations and
that it is launching four new open-source projects for tools and technology
implementation: COBOL, Project Hyades for Automated Software Quality,
the Eclipse Modeling Framework and the Koi Project. This adds to the momentum
that Eclipse has seen with over 3.1 million download requests logged from
over 125 countries in its first year. A worldwide "eco-system" of tools
providers and consumers is forming around the Eclipse Platform, an open
universal tools integration platform for multi-language, multi-platform
and multi-vendor choice. Eclipse makes it easier for technology producers
and consumers to create, integrate and use integrated software tools,
saving developers time and money.
Eclipse is now supported by providers of a broad range of development
technologies including specialists in modeling, code generation, metadata
management, testing, embedded computing, enterprise middleware, collaboration,
services, research and application systems vendors. The thirteen new member
companies and organization that have joined the Eclipse Consortium since
September include: AltoWeb, Catalyst Systems, Flashline, Hewlett Packard,
ETRI (the Korean information technology research institute), MKS Software,
Oracle, Parasoft, SAP, SlickEdit, Teamstudio, Timesys and OMG, the Object
Management Group. They join members: Fujitsu, Hitachi, Ltd., Instantiations,
Inc., MontaVista Software, Scapa Technologies Limited, Serena Software,
Sybase, Telelogic, Trans-Enterprise Integration Corp. and founding members
Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, RedHat,
SuSE, and TogetherSoft in providing ongoing support for Eclipse open-source
projects.
Eclipse is structured in open-source projects supported by member companies
and individuals that freely contribute support, technology and skill.
The four new open-source projects are forming to extend the core Eclipse
Platform with tools, frameworks and reusable technology for key development
areas. These projects include:
- Tools for developing in the COBOL Language, based upon a donation
from Fujitsu
- The Eclipse Modeling Framework - a model driven metadata
management framework based upon OMG's Model Driven Architecture, with
participation from IBM, Rational, and Togethersoft
- Project Hyades,
a new framework and reusable technology supporting deployment of Automated
Software Quality (test and trace) tools led by IBM, Scapa Technologies,
Telelogic and Parasoft
- Koi Project - a new infrastructure supporting
collaborative development activities between team members led by Instantiations,
Inc.
A growing number of offerings "Powered by Eclipse Technology" are now
available from member companies like Catalyst (OpenMake), Flashline (CMEE),
IBM (WebSphere Studio), Instantiations (CodePro Studio), MERANT (PVCS),
ParaSoft (Jtest), QNX Software Systems (Momentics), RATIONAL (XDE;
ClearCase), Teamstudio (Analyzer for Java), Telelogic (Synergy) and others.
Embarcadero, Genuitec, Interwoven, Junit, MacroMedia, MKS, Parasoft,
Sitraka, StarBase, Versant, and Versata have introduced commercially
available Eclipse based offerings.
Full details of the Eclipse Consortium, open-source community, The Eclipse
Platform and royalty-free downloads are available at http://www.eclipse.org
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