InformationWeek: An Inside Look At IBM's Eclipse Project | Linux Today

InformationWeek: An Inside Look At IBM’s Eclipse Project

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 2003

“In November 2001, IBM announced it was contributing what it
termed $40 million worth of software that it had developed as an
internal developers’ workbench to an open-source project it dubbed
Eclipse.

“Last week, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco,
the state of Eclipse was reviewed at a roundtable discussion of
four participants in the project and an Eclipse user. They
were:

  • “Marc Erickson, IBM’s representative to Eclipse and
    communications manager for Eclipse.org
  • “Cory Bialowas, product manager for the Rational Division of
    IBM, the former Rational Software tool supplier
  • “Sebastian Marineau, development manager for QNX Software
    Systems Ltd., a supplier of real-time operating systems for
    embedded devices
  • “Mike Bauer, vice president of products, TimeSys Corp., a
    supplier of Linux for embedded systems
  • “Chris Songer, Tensilica Inc., a supplier of integrated tools
    for system-on-chip applications…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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