Eclipse.org formed by leading software companies
6 December 2001
Borland, IBM, Merant, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software, RedHat, SuSE, and TogetherSoft today announced the formation of Eclipse.org, an open consortium of providers of development tools that manages the Eclipse Platform, which is being made available in open source under the Common Public License1.
These companies, each of which plans to release Eclipse Platform compatible product offerings, form the initial Eclipse.org board of directors. The bylaws and operating principles of the organization are published at eclipse.org.
The Eclipse Platform is a new open source environment for creating, integrating and deploying application development tools for use across a broad range of computing technology. It provides a common set of services and establishes the framework, infrastructure and interactive workbench used by project developers to build application software and related elements.
Through the Eclipse Platform, seamless integration of tools from several different vendors will be possible on Windows, Linux® and QNX® developer workstations.
The Eclipse Platform provides source code building blocks, plug-in frameworks and running examples that facilitate application tools development.
A complete sample plug-in based integrated development environment for creating Java applications (JDT) is included. Code access and use is controlled through the Common Public License1 allows individuals to create derivative works with worldwide re-distribution rights that are royalty free.
"We're very impressed by the power and flexibility of the Eclipse Platform" said Andrew Weiss, Merant chief technology officer.
"As a founding member of the board of directors for the open Eclipse.org consortium, we are committed to providing Merant's current and potential customers with plug-ins to extend and complement Eclipse with familiar solutions like PVCS, our software configuration management and web and content management technologies."

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