FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BZ MEDIA'S SD TIMES
SHINES SPOTLIGHT ON ECLIPSE
Huntington, N.Y. and Ottawa, Ont., December 13, 2004 - BZ Media LLC and the Eclipse Foundation today announced the release of "Spotlight on Eclipse," a special supplement to SD Times which highlights the growing momentum surrounding Eclipse, the open-source universal tools platform.
The supplement was distributed with the December 1, 2004, issue of BZ Media's SD Times, the industry newspaper for software development managers. It is also available for download from http://www.sdtimes.com, and via a link from http://eclipse.org, the official Web site of the Eclipse Foundation.
Alan Zeichick, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times and Executive Vice President of BZ Media LLC, said, "Spotlight on Eclipse marks the remarkable progress made by the Eclipse Foundation. During the past three years, Eclipse has become the de facto standard platform for many developers and ISVs working on Java, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows projects. We would like to thank the Eclipse Foundation for its support of this special supplement."
The "Spotlight on Eclipse" supplement opens with a report from Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation, which described how Eclipse has evolved into a mature development platform for building, testing and deploying software applications. It also discusses Eclipse's vibrant ecosystem of add-in providers, commercial solutions, books, education and information portals, advanced resource projects and an active, growing developer community.
Milinkovich said, "The Eclipse Foundation was delighted to work with SD Times on the Spotlight on Eclipse project. Communication is a core mission of the Foundation, and we would like to thank BZ Media for helping us share the success behind Eclipse, as well as the plans that we and the 80 member organizations have for the future."
In addition to the Eclipse Foundation, 22 separate Eclipse member organizations participated in the "Spotlight on Eclipse" supplement, including Accelerated Technologies, a Mentor Graphics Division; Agitar; Exadel; Parasoft; and Wind River. The supplement will also be distributed at EclipseCon 2005, a technical conference scheduled for February 28-March 3 at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, Calif., close to San Francisco International Airport.
Separately, BZ Media announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Associate Member.
Zeichick said, "The Eclipse Foundation is an important industry association that shows genuine leadership, vision and innovation toward advancing the art of enterprise software development. BZ Media is proud to be a formal supporter of the Eclipse project."
