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.

Thank you Amazon!

Just a quick Thank-You to Amazon, (specifically, the AWS team and the CloudFront product) for once again providing our annual release train with some much needed, and much appreciated bandwidth. During the heavy download period of the release trains, our webmasters relish the ability to smooth the downloads over our Member Distros, Mirrors and AWS Cloudfront.

This is the second year in a row that we've been able to serve increasing volume with (mostly) full speed available to all downloaders.

Kudos!

- Don

Eclipse Summit Europe Sponsors

To date 16 (sweet!) companies have signed up to sponsor Eclipse Summit Europe.



Thanks to my colleague Perri I even have nice artwork to show :)

You can follow us on Twitter: #ese @EclipseSummit @EclipseESE

Welcome Bank of America to the Eclipse Foundation

Bank of America, one of the worlds largest financial institutions, has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member. In the US alone, Bank of America has over 58 Million accounts and 30 Million active online banking users.

I believe a key reason Bank of America joined the Eclipse Foundation is to act as a catalyst for other IT consumer organizations to get more involved in Eclipse and support open innovation. We know there are a lot of organizations with large deployments of Eclipse and seeing them step up and signal support in this way is very important to our ecosystem.

We appreciate the membership and support of Bank of America.

- Don