Welcome University of Genova - DIST to the Eclipse Foundation

The University of Genova, Italy has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.

For many years has the university's department of Computer, Communication and Systems Science (DIST) in Genova invested in Eclipse related technology and has helped to create a vivid research community in Italy.

Main research interests of the department with its 75 researchers and about 100 PhD students include the e-learning, robotics and automation, artificial intelligence and peer-to-peer technologies.

In many areas of this work the Eclipse platform serves as educational tool as well as supporting the researchers.

We appreciate the membership of the University of Genova and look forward to many joint activities.

Please contact DIST if you are looking for cooperation in the mentioned areas.

Welcome Interactive Objects to the Eclipse Foundation

Interactive Objects (iO) has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

iO considers itself a leading provider for Eclipse-based solutions for application portfolio modernization and maintenance of legacy systems.

Moreover, it offers MoRE, a solution for model driven modernization. MoRE is implemented on top of the Eclipse platform. iO provides legacy connectors for COBOL, PL/1 and other legacy applications. The abstraction, reduction, navigation and traceability features of MoRE makes of this solution not only the perfect companion for modernization initiatives, but also for extending end-of-life of legacy applications and drastically improving maintenance efforts.

iO’s vision is to provide the Eclipse community with a standard-based, extensible and configurable methodology and tools for model-driven modernization, that integrate application portfolio management (APM) and model-driven development.

iO hopes that the membership in the Eclipse Foundation will help to extend MoRE’s footprint and coverage.

We appreciate Interactive Objects´ membership and look forward to many joint activities.

Welcome SBB / CFF / FFS to the Eclipse Foundation

The Swiss Railway SBB has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.

Transporting 327.5 million passengers and 50 million net tons of freight every year the company is by far the biggest travel and transport company in Switzerland.

Having experienced their great services for the time I was living in Switzerland I appreciate very much that this very service oriented organization has become a large consumer of the Eclipse platform and Eclipse related services.

We have seen presentations of their applications on various occasions such as the Eclipse Summit, and we look forward to an even closer relationship with SBB through the newly signed membership.

Welcome Intland Software to Eclipse

Intland Software has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The company is a provider of collaboration and Application Lifecycle Management solutions for software development.

Within the Eclipse ecosystem, Intland is actively pursuing the following activities and projects:

To further enhance the seamless integration of Mercurial, a leading Distributed Version Control System, to Eclipse, with the MercurialEclipse plugin project. Intland is a firm believer in the superiority of the Distributed Version Control paradigm over the traditional centralized approach, and is actively developing several commercial and free software packages that support Mercurial and Git.

To reuse the first hand experience gathered while working on the Mercurial integration, and contribute to the EGit project - the Eclipse plugin that integrates Git with Eclipse - Intland has been invited to participate in EGit and team up with SAP, Google, Tasktop and other individual contributors.

Furthermore, Intland is working on defining and developing a generic integration layer between the leading Distributed Version Control implementations and the Mylyn task-focused interface. The primary aim of this initiative is to develop the most complete distributed ALM functionality available in the Eclipse universe. It includes sophisticated issue management, offline working and powerful associations between issues and source code change sets.

Intland’s collaborative software development solutions are used by major international organisations in industries, such as automobile, avionics, defence, finance and telecommunications. The company’s headquarters is based in Stuttgart, Germany, with a subsidiary in Silicon Valley, USA.

We appreciate Intland's membership and look forward to many joint activities

Welcome Sigasi To The Eclipse Foundation

Sigasi has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The young start-up is based in Ghent, Belgium. The company is focusing it's efforts around Sigasi HDT, a development tool for VHDL designers (in case you don't know VHDL, consult Wikipedia here). The tool is listed on Eclipse Marketplace in case you want to download it.

As Hendrik Eeckhaut, the CTO of Sigasi, states: We have long been convinced that a solid framework like Eclipse helps everybody. The application developer can reuse a big portion of the Eclipse framework (standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak). The end user has a single familiar user interface and can benefit from over a thousand Eclipse-based solutions.

We appreciate Sigasi's membership and look forward to many joint activities (and more creative marketing images).

Welcome OPCoach to the Eclipse Foundation

OPCoach has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a Solution Member.

The Toulouse, France based company was founded in June 2009, to provide training and consultancy on Eclipse related technologies. Based on the vast experience that the founder, Olivier Prouvost, acquired in former positions the company provides excellent services for RCP development and model based technologies.

OPCoach's customers are as well big companies like EADS, Continental, Freescale, Air France, Nixdorf, or pure software companies like Atos origin, Aptus, Silicom...

Trainings and consultancies are provided in French or English, in France and in Europe.

We appreciate OPCoach's membership and look forward to many joint activities.

Welcome Atos Origin to the Eclipse Foundation

Atos Origin S.A. has just recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.

The company that originated from the French Atos and the Dutch Origin B.V. is one of the leading international information technology corporations, operating in 40 countries worldwide, with over 50,000 employees. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and as such, integrates, manages and secures the IT systems.

I had the pleasure to work with the consultants from Atos Origin in Toulouse, France where they provided Eclipse related consulting and development services in the Topcased project as well as in the ongoing OPEES initiative.

We appreciate Atos Origin's membership and look forward to many joint activities.