Eclipse Forms Independent Organization

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Eclipse Forms Independent Organization

.	Membership Launches Not-For-Profit Corporation to Implement and Share
Technology
.	Establishes Scalable Governance Model for Open Source Projects and
Commercial Participation

ECLIPSECON, ANAHEIM, CA-February 2, 2004-The Eclipse Board of Stewards today
announced Eclipse's reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation.
Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform
into Open Source, Eclipse is now an independent body that will drive the
platform's evolution to benefit the providers of software development
offerings and end-users. All technology and source code provided to this
fast-growing ecosystem will remain openly available and royalty-free.

With this change, a full-time Eclipse management organization is being
established to engage with commercial developers and consumers, academic and
research institutions, standards bodies, tool interoperability groups and
individual developers, plus coordinate Open Source projects. To maintain a
reliable and accessible development roadmap, a set of councils-Requirements,
Architecture and Planning-will guide the development done by Eclipse Open
Source projects. With the support of over 50 member companies, Eclipse
already hosts 4 major Open Source projects that include 19 subprojects.

To oversee and staff this new management organization, Eclipse has
established a Board of Directors drawn from four classes of membership:
Strategic Developers, Strategic Consumers, Add-in Providers and Open Source
project leaders. Strategic
Developers and Strategic Consumers hold seats on this Board, as do
representatives elected by Add-in Providers and Open Source project leaders.
Strategic Developers, Strategic Consumers and Add-in Providers contribute
annual dues. The founding Strategic Developers and Strategic Consumers are
Ericsson, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, QNX, SAP and Serena Software.
In the coming weeks, the Board will announce its selection of a full-time
Executive Director to lead the Eclipse management organization.

"As mainstream IS organizations begin implementing and deploying
service-oriented architectures like J2EE and .NET into new computing
environments, having standardized, integrated and interoperable technologies
will become increasingly important to their success. Industry consortiums
like Eclipse and NetBeans that implement tools based upon standards from
groups like the Object Management Group (OMG) and Java Tools Community (JTC)
are well-suited to address these types of problems-especially if the groups
can coordinate their efforts." says Gartner vice-president and research
director, Michael Blechar.

According to Skip McGaughey, spokesperson for Eclipse, "This is a
significant step forward in the evolution of Eclipse. For the Open Source
development community, we're establishing a strong support base that will
strengthen the projects and expand a powerful reusable architecture. This
creates long-term opportunities for reuse, interoperation and innovation
that enable both providers and consumers to take development tool technology
to the next level in functionality integration and usability."

With more than 18 million download requests recorded since its inception,
adoption of the Eclipse platform continues to accelerate. Development
environment providers value its powerful reusable architecture that provides
integration "by construction," reduces duplication of effort and creates new
opportunities for innovation and differentiation. Add-in providers are
attracted by the ease with which seamless integration can be achieved as
well as the large business opportunity represented by this growing
ecosystem. End users appreciate the common look-and-feel and off-the-shelf
integration across a large selection of independently developed offerings.
With reorganization, Eclipse's members have established the strategic,
operational and financial means to effectively support and accommodate
continued growth.

About Eclipse
Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around royalty-free
technology and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based
tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform,
multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that
makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time
and money. By collaborating and exploiting core integration technology, tool
producers can leverage platform reuse and concentrate on core competencies
to create new development technology. 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, OSx and Windows based systems. A full
description of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design
and use of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org.

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Strategic Partner Quotes:

Hewlett Packard (HP)
"As an independent, not-for-profit corporation, Eclipse will provide a
superior environment for tool integration and interoperability and will
continue to cultivate a vibrant community of tool providers and users," said
Mike Rank, director of developer resources and partner enablement for HP.
"HP is proud to serve on the Eclipse board of directors and provide its
experience and expertise in both using and extending the Eclipse technology.
As a strategic member of the Eclipse organization, HP is committed to
providing developers with the tools needed to incorporate and leverage
application management capabilities over the entire software development
lifecycle."

IBM
"IBM, a leader and champion of the Eclipse movement, is committed to
continuing our significant investment to improve the Eclipse platform,
frameworks and related tools," said Lee R. Nackman, IBM vice president of
desktop development tools and chief technical officer of Rational software."
To deliver on the promise of Eclipse, accommodate future growth, and further
enhance the value of this technology to the open community, IBM is proud now
to help launch Eclipse as an independent not-for-profit organization."

Intel
"Intel is pleased to be a founding member of the new independent Eclipse,"
said Jonathan Khazam, general manager of Intel's Software Products Division
and member of the new Eclipse Board of Directors. "We are committed to
playing an active role in the new organization and believe Eclipse will
enhance our Linux development tool product offerings. Intel's deep knowledge
of processor architecture and tools technology will enable us to participate
in enhancing Eclipse for the next generation of development tools."

MontaVista
"The rapid and broad adoption of Eclipse technology leverages the immense
resources of the Open Source community, as does Linux, for the benefit of
software developers worldwide," commented Jim Ready, chief executive officer
and president of MontaVista Software. "MontaVista Software has adopted
Eclipse as the strategic development framework, benefiting our customers,
and proudly demonstrates our commitment to Eclipse through our membership in
the new independent entity, and with our contributions to Eclipse
technology."

QNX Software Systems
"QNX is proud to be a driving force behind Eclipse since its inception,"
said Dan Dodge, chief executive officer of QNX Software Systems Ltd.  "With
a seat on the board as a strategic developer member, we are reinforcing and
extending our commitment to the goals of seamless tool integration and
advancement of best-in-class tooling for embedded software development."

SAP
"As a founding member of the new independent entity and an early adopter of
Eclipse technology in our SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio, we are pleased to
serve on the newly formed Eclipse Board of Directors," said Michael Bechauf,
vice president NetWeaver Standards.  "SAP has taken a very active role in
promoting the Eclipse open source tools platform and we look forward to
contributing to its continued success. Participation in the earliest
development phases of Eclipse has allowed our customers to leverage the
Eclipse ecosystem.  The momentum Eclipse has gained will help our customers
and partners benefit from a more rapid development of the platform with
increased support from a more diverse ecosystem."

Serena Software
"We are excited to participate in the new Eclipse as a strategic consumer,"
said Boris Kapitanski, vice president of Strategic Technology at Serena
Software.  "Eclipse is becoming a very attractive platform for a variety of
companies, due mostly to its highly integrated nature. Our goal is to make
Eclipse even more usable and robust by extending its capabilities from a
development platform to a complete application lifecycle support environment
to attract more business, marketing, and technical users to the Eclipse
community."

Announced Eclipse Add-In Providers
Advanced Systems Concepts
CanyonBlue
Catalyst Systems Corporation
Embarcadero Technologies
ETRI
Exadel
Fujitsu
Genuitec
Hitachi Software
ILOG
INNOOPRACT
Instantiations, Inc.
Logic Library
M7 Corporation
Metanology Corporation
Micro Focus
MKS
Novell
Optena Corporation
Oracle
PalmSource
Parasoft Corporation
QA Systems
Red Hat
SAS
Scapa Technologies Limited
SilverMark
SlickEdit
Teamstudio
Telelogic
TimeSys
Unisys
VA Software, Inc.
Wasabi Systems
webMethods
Wind River



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