Eclipse Community Awards Winners Announced; Inaugural Awards Honor Individuals and Products that Have Contributed to the Growth and Reach of the Eclipse Community.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- The Eclipse Foundation The Eclipse Foundation leads the development of Eclipse, the open-source Java application platform and IDE. History In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an unofficial consortium of software industry vendors led by IBM, founded The Eclipse Foundation, a today announced the winners of its inaugural Eclipse Community Awards. The winners were selected by the Eclipse community and were honored at an awards ceremony last night on the opening day of EclipseCon 2006. The awards honor individuals and products that help further the reach of the Eclipse community and extend the ecosystem. The Individual Awards recognize the people who have volunteered their time and resources in making Eclipse a vibrant and innovative community. Winners were selected by their peers in an online vote. --Top Contributor: Linda Watson Linda Watson (born September 15, 1955) is a former field hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the golden medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. . Finalists in this category are Gunnar Wagenknecht and Mik Kersten. --Top Committer: Alain Magloire. Finalists in this category are Ed Merks and Jeff McAffer. --Top Ambassador: Ed Burnette. Finalists in this category are Erich Gamma and Pat McCarthy. The Technology Awards recognize the open source projects and products that are being developed around the Eclipse Rich Client Platform A Rich Client Platform (RCP) is a piece of software consisting of the following components:
Unix manual page: rcp(1). ) and developer tools. Technology Award winners were selected by a panel of judges Panel of Judges is an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia. Members
--Best open source RCP application: Gumtree (http://gumtree.sourceforge.net). The finalist is uDig (http://udig.refractions.net). --Best commercial RCP application: Lombardi Teamworks (www.lombardisoftware.com). The finalist is Future Management Logic MindGuide (www.logicmindguide.com). --Best open source Eclipse-based developer tool: RadRails (www.radrails.org). --Best commercial Eclipse-based developer tool: BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. Workshop Studio 3.0 (www.bea.com). Finalists in this category are Exadel Studio Pro (www.exadel.com) and QNX A multiuser, multitasking, real time operating system for PCs from QNX Software Systems, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario (www.qnx.com), that is noted for its low-memory requirement and rapid response. Similar to Unix, it has been in use since the early 1980s. Momentics (www.qnx.com). --Best deployment of Eclipse technology in an enterprise: Compass Group (Pty) Ltd & Jigsaw Interactive CC (www.ji.co.za). "We're extremely pleased to recognize these individuals and products for their outstanding contributions to the Eclipse community," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director, Eclipse Foundation. "As Eclipse expands its projects into new technology areas, the most important element of our success remains the strength of the community. These awards are a small token of appreciation for the community by the community." 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 C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ 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. All company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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