The Eclipse Foundation says it has gained momentum since re-incorporating as a non-profit organization six months ago. Membership has increased 30 percent, while nine new open source Eclipse-based projects have sprung up. In all, 18 commercial products are now based on the Eclipse platform for cross-vendor tools integration, it says.

The Eclipse Foundation re-incorporated as a non-profit in early February, in a move widely interpreted as an effort to distance itself from project originator IBM and build industry confidence in tool platform's vendor-neutrality. Apparently, the strategy has succeeded.

New Eclipse members during the last six months include:

• Actuate Corporation
• Acucorp Inc.
• Agitar Software
• Aonix
• Compuware Corporation
• Communications and Media Arts (CMA)
• Eclipse PlugIn Central (EPIC)
• JBoss Inc.
• Kinzan Inc.
• M1 Global Solution
• Mentor Graphics
• Panscopic
• PureEdge Solutions, Inc.
• Real-Time Innovations, Inc.
• Social Physics
• Softlanding Systems Inc.
• The Thales Group

In total, Eclipse now has six top-level open source projects that are made up of 34 subprojects, the Foundation reports. Projects new in the last six months include:

• Top-level projects:
  • Test and Performance Tools Project
  • Business Intelligence and Reporting Project (BIRT)
  • Web Tools Project
• Technology projects:
  • Concern Manipulation Environment (CME)
  • Eclipse Communications Project
  • Embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP)
  • Pollinate
  • Open Modeling Environment with Links for Extensions and Transformations (OMELET)
  • Voice Tools Project

Finally, according to the Eclipse Foundation, commercial products based on the Eclipse Platform and IDE now number 18, including:

• Exadel Struts Studio and JSF Studio
• Genuitec MyEclipse
• IBM WebSphere Studio
• Intel C++ Compiler 8.1 for Linux
• Kinzan Studio
• M7 NitroX
• Mentor Graphics Nucleus Edge
• Monta Vista Dev Rocket
• Novell/SuSE SDK
• PalmOS Dev Suite
• Parasoft JTest
• PureEdge Designer
• QNX Momentics
• Red Hat Developer Suite
• SAP NetWeaver Studio
• Tensilica Xtensa Xplorer IDE
• TimeSys TimeStorm IDE
• Wind River Workbench

Additionally, embedded Linux vendor LynuxWorks says it is almost ready to ship Luminosity, a development platform based on Eclipse.

For a history of the Eclipse Project through its first two years under the wing of IBM, be sure to read our Special Report.

 
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