The Center announces a multifaceted relationship with the fastest growing open source developer platform
BEAVERTON, Ore. – May 18, 2005 – The Open Technology Business Center today announced a relationship with the Eclipse Foundation that includes selecting an Eclipse project leader as the first Innovator-in-Residence of the Center, located in Beaverton, Oregon. The Eclipse Foundation is headquartered in ontario, Canada, and its strategic members include many large technology companies from around the globe such as BEA Systems, Borland, CA, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, SAP and Red Hat.
While Eclipse project leaders and contributors live and work around the globe, the Portland area is home to prominent technical leadership in Eclipse. Intel leads significant Eclipse development activity from Hillsboro according to James Reinders, director of marketing and business development, Intel Software Products Division. “It’s great to see business expanding in Oregon, especially something based on software development, an area in which Intel has a keen interest. Improvements in development capabilities are highly valued as Intel works to help developers bring out the best in their application performance through Intel Software Development Products and services”.
“Intel’s expertise and Eclipse luminary John Wiegand at IBM’s Beaverton facility are the foundation for a growing base of regional Open Technology expertise that includes OSDL and significant commercial and community Linux activities,” said LaVonne Reimer, Executive Director of OTBC. “The Eclipse Foundation is especially important to the start-up community because of its quality as a framework on which to innovate and launch new businesses.”
Scott Lewis, the Open Technology Business Center’s first innovator-in-residence and a local serial entrepreneur, is project lead of the Eclipse Communication Framework (ECF). ECF enables real-time communication and collaboration for Eclipse-based tools. Lewis is a member of Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors.
OTBC also announced that Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Technical Director for the Eclipse Foundation, will take a part-time residency in OTBC to build on the Eclipse-OTBC relationship, the Center will become an associate member of the Eclipse Foundation, and a Germany-based Eclipse member is planning to establish its U.S. headquarters in the Center.
According to Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of The Eclipse Foundation, “the relationship with the Open Technology Business Center gives us an opportunity to reach out to the growing number of entrepreneurs interested in Eclipse while giving the Center and its resident ventures a link to the Foundation and the industry leaders that make up its membership.”
Eclipse increasingly is the platform of choice for vendors deploying Java applications in production systems. Eclipse, winner of Information Week’s “Technology of the Year” in 2004, grew from 35 percent of the market segment share in 2003 to 55 percent in 2004 according to industry surveys.
About the Open Technology Business Center in Beaverton, Ore.
The Open Technology Business Center (OTBC) is devoted to the formation, funding and growth of start-ups in the Open Technology industry – whether they are in Beaverton or in Beijing, Bangalore or the Bay Area. Founding partners of OTBC are The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) and City of Beaverton. Members include entrepreneurs, small Open Technology companies, large technology suppliers and venture capital firms. About The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org.
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