Standing room only was available at each of the
five keynotes, which were delivered by prominent
leaders in the developer community. Topics and
keynoters were as follows: "The Eclipse State
of the Union" by Erich Gamma, Eclipse JDT
lead and John Wiegand of the Eclipse Platform,
"Eclipse as a Platform for AOSD Research and
Development" by Gregor Kiczales, NSERC/Xerox/Sierra
Systems Professor of Software Design, University
of British Columbia, "The Eclipse.org Tipping
Point" by Michael Tiemann, CTO, RedHat,
"From IDE to XDE to CDE" by Grady Booch,
Chief Scientist, IBM Rational and lastly "The
Business of Open Source" by Simon Phipps,
Chief Technology Evangelist for Sun Microsystems,
Inc.
In addition, all tutorials were well attended and
the large number of attendees took advantage of
various technical sessions, sponsor exhibits,
technology exchanges, a poster gallery and
birds-of-a-feather events. EclipseCon 2004 was the
first technical conference to focus on the power
of the Eclipse platform, which recently celebrated
its 2-year anniversary. Last week, the Eclipse
organization also announced its reorganization
into a not-for-profit corporation. Eclipse is now
an independent body made up of over 58 member
companies that will drive the platform's evolution
to benefit the providers of software development
offerings and end-users. With more than 18 million
download requests recorded since its inception,
adoption of the Eclipse platform continues to
accelerate.
EclipseCon 2004 was sponsored by HP, IBM
Rational Software, SAP and Wind River at the Gold
level and by Advanced Systems Concepts, Candle,
Catalyst Systems Corporation, ETRI, ILOG,
INNOOPRACT Informationssysteme GmbH, Intel
Corporation, MKS, Inc., MontaVista Software,
Ontometrix, Parasoft Corporation, QNX Software
Systems Ltd., Scapa Technologies, Serena Software,
SlickEdit Inc., SoftLanding Systems, Inc. and
SourceBeat at the Silver level. Application
Development Trends, CM Crossroads, Dr. Dobbs
Journal, Embeddedtechnology.com, Open Magazine,
OSDN, Software Development Times and SD West 2004
were media sponsors. The Object Management Group™
(OMG™) was the event organizer
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