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EPIC Europa Podcast Series


In order to explore how Europa, the simultaneous Eclipse release that occurred June 29, impacts Eclipse member companies, EPIC is hosting a podcast series. In this set of podcasts, individuals from member companies discuss their views and plans for the Eclipse projects in Europa and explain how the release affects their products.  Listen to get an overview of how Europa is helping to shape the Eclipse community.

Episode Description
Episode 1 - Genuitec In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast Genuitec president Maher Masri talks about the Europa release. He says that with Europa, Eclipse continues the "all can win" philosophy providing a platform that benefits both large and small companies. Masri notes that Europa has embraced the OSGI spec so that Eclipse is no longer just a tools platform but that it is also a runtime application. He finishes with a look at some of the new feature coming in the next version of MyEclipse.
Episode 2 - Red Hat In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast Red Hat's Brian Che talks about three Red Hat products and the Europa release. He talks about the importance of CDT and RCP for Fedora. Che says that JBoss will be taking advantage of the tooling frameworks available in Europa.
Episode 3 - CodeGear Borland has a long history of producing tools for developers. In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast their CodeGear Director Product Management Joe McGlynn talks about the Europa release. McGlynn says that CodeGear's Team Insight builds on the Eclipse Mylyn project. He talks about plans for JBuilder and how they are using the DLTK for the new CodeGear Ruby and Rails IDE.
Episode 4 - OpenMake Software In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast OpenMake Software CTO Steve Taylor talks about the Europa release. He is planning on taking advantage of the test and performance tools in building OpenMake's Mojo and Meister applications.
Episode 5 - IONA Technologies Oisin Hurley of IONA Technologies is the SOA tools platform project lead. In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast he talks about the experience of being part of the Europa release train and talks about the state and future of the STP project.
Episode 6 - BEA In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast, Bill Roth, BEA's Vice President for Tooling, talks about BEA's relationship with and commitment to Eclipse. Roth says that BEA has been involved heavily in the Web Tools Platform Project and is leveraging this work in their upcoming products.
Episode 7 - Innoopract Many members of the Eclipse community find it important to give back as much as they take. In this episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast, Jochen Krause describes some of the areas in which Innoopract contributes to Eclipse. They are involved in the Eclipse Packaging Project as well as in developing core technology that will make the Eclipse application model available in web browsers using AJAX.
Episode 8 - Remain Wim Jongman of Remain talks about the Europa release and explains why Remain has recently become a member of the Eclipse Foundation in his episode of the Eclipse Europa podcast. He explains that they interface with BIRT, Mylyn, and they use the Eclipse Modeling Framework. Remain is working to establish the Eclipse Training Alliance to help others coming to the platform.