EclipseCon 2005 Announces Gold-Level Sponsors

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

EclipseCon 2005 Announces Gold-Level Sponsors


Accelerated Technology, Actuate, Agitar, Borland, HP and IBM
Named Gold Sponsors

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA-December 9, 2004-The Eclipse Foundation announced
the Gold-level sponsors for EclipseCon 2005, the annual gathering of the
Eclipse community to be held February 28 through March 3, 2005, at the Hyatt
Regency, Burlingame, CA, United States. Six leading technology companies,
Accelerated Technology, Inc. a Mentor Graphics Division, Actuate
Corporation, Agitar Software, Borland Software Corporation, HP and IBM will
be the key sponsors of the conference.

"Eclipse is enjoying a tremendous amount of success and popularity in a
number of different markets, including enterprise Java development,
embedded, testing, business intelligence and enterprise IT," explained Mike
Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse Foundation, Inc. "This diversity
is reflected in our ability to attract leading vendors from these markets to
act as Gold-level sponsors for EclipseCon. We are honored to have these
companies offer their significant sponsorship for our conference."

The EclipseCon technical program will appeal to beginners through advanced
users, developers of Eclipse-based applications, enterprise architects and
other technology decision makers. The program consists of more than twenty
tutorials and three days of sessions. Please visit www.eclipsecon.org for
additional information about the program.

Registration and Hotel Information
Registration and hotel information is available at www.eclipsecon.org.
Conference fee discounts are offered for those registering before January
31, 2005.

Information for Press and Analyst Organizations
Members of the press and analyst communities are encouraged to attend
EclipseCon 2005. Registration information is available at
www.eclipsecon.org.

Information for Exhibitors
Additional sponsorship and exhibiting opportunities are still available.
Organizations interested in exhibiting at EclipseCon 2005 are invited to
visit www.eclipsecon.org for more information. Interested parties should
also email eclipsecon2005exhibitor@eclipse.org.

About the Eclipse Foundation
The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit member-supported corporation that
hosts community-based, open-source projects. Eclipse creates royalty-free
technology and a universal platform for development tools integration,
modeling, testing and functionally-rich application construction.
Eclipse-based offerings give developers freedom of choice in a
multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor supported environment. Eclipse
delivers a dynamic plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create
and integrate technology, saving time and money. By collaborating and
sharing core integration technology, providers can concentrate and focus on
areas of expertise and differentiation. The Eclipse Platform is written in
the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and
examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development
workstations including Linux, QNX, Mac OS X and Windows-based systems. Full
details of the Eclipse Foundation and white papers documenting the design of
the Eclipse Platform are available at www.eclipse.org.

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