 ECLIPSE FoundationCompany Description:Eclipse.org is the website of the Eclipse Foundation.Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by an open community of tool providers. Operating under a open source paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty free source code and world wide redistribution rights, the eclipse platform provides tool developers with ultimate flexibility and control over their software technology. Eclipse has formed an independent open eco-system around royalty-free technology and a universal platform for tools integration. Eclipse based tools give developers freedom of choice in a multi-language, multi-platform, multi-vendor environment. Eclipse provides a plug-in based framework that makes it easier to create, integrate and utilize software tools, saving time and money. By collaborating and exploiting core integration technology, tool producers can leverage platform reuse and concentrate on core competencies to create new development technology. The Eclipse Platform is written in the Java language and comes with extensive plug-in construction toolkits and examples. It has already been deployed on a range of development workstations including Linux, QNX, OSx and Windows based systems. A full description of the Eclipse community and white papers documenting the design and use of the Eclipse Platform are available at http://www.eclipse.org. The Eclipse Foundation is a non-profit corporation formed to advance the creation, evolution, promotion, and support of the Eclipse Platform and to cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products, capabilities, and services. You can learn more about the structure and mission of the Eclipse Foundation by reading the formal documents that establish how the foundation operates, and by reading the press release announcing the creation of the independent organization. For software licensing, website terms of use, and legal FAQs, please see our legal stuff page. Eclipse logos and graphics are found on our artwork page. History of eclipse.org Industry leaders Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Rational Software3, Red Hat, SuSE, TogetherSoft3 and Webgain2 formed the initial eclipse.org Board of Stewards in November 2001. In March of 2002, the board unanimously voted to add new members, Serena, Sybase and Fujitsu. At the June 2002 meeting of the Board of Stewards, Hitachi, Instantiations, MontaVista, Scapa Technologies and Telelogic were added to the board membership. In September 2002, ETRI, HP, MKS and SlickEdit were unanimously elected to the Board of Stewards. Also at the September board meeting, Oracle's membership was approved. Catalyst Systems, Flashline, Parasoft, SAP, teamstudio and TimeSys became members in December 2002. The board of stewards was very pleased to welcome the Object Management Group (OMG) as an associate member. In March 2003 the board welcomed associate member the Fraunhofer Institute, and stewards representing Ericsson, LogicLibrary, M7 Corpororation, QA Systems and SilverMark, Inc. We are now pleased to include stewards from Advanced Systems Concepts, Genuitec and INNOOPRACT Informationssysteme GmbH. In May of 2003 the board welcomed new members CanyonBlue, Ensemble Systems, Intel, Micro Focus, Tensilica and Wasabi. On Feb 2, 2004 the Eclipse Board of Stewards announced Eclipse's reorganization into a not-for-profit corporation. Originally a consortium that formed when IBM released the Eclipse Platform into Open Source, Eclipse became an independent body that will drive the platform’s evolution to benefit the providers of software development offerings and end-users. All technology and source code provided to this fast-growing ecosystem will remain openly available and royalty-free. With this change, a full-time Eclipse management organization would be established to engage with commercial developers and consumers, acade Worldwide Headquarters:
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