FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BZ Media Announces First-Ever Conference for Enterprise
Eclipse Developers
Call for Speakers now open for EclipseWorld, scheduled
for August 2005 in New York City
Huntington, N.Y., March 28, 2005 - BZ Media
LLC, publishers of SD Times, today announced the launch of
EclipseWorld™, the industry's first independent conference for
enterprise IT profession using Eclipse-based
tools and technologies. EclipseWorld will be held August 29-31, 2005, in
New York City.
Alan Zeichick, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times and Conference
Chairman of EclipseWorld, said, "The tools and technologies being developed
by the Eclipse community are fast becoming the de facto standard for
developing enterprise software. Whether for Linux, Windows or Unix, whether
in Java, C++ or COBOL, the Eclipse community is right on the cutting edge."
Zeichick continued, "The goal of EclipseWorld is to help
enterprise developers master this cutting-edge technology, and learn how to
leverage the entire Eclipse ecosystem, from the Eclipse code itself to
commercial and open-source plug-ins and platforms that leverage the Eclipse
framework."
Eclipse is an open platform for tool integration built by
an open community of tool providers. Operating under an open source
paradigm, with a common public license that provides royalty-free source
code and worldwide redistribution rights, the Eclipse platform provides
enterprise software developers with tools frameworks, integrated development
environments, test/QA tools, a business intelligence and reporting framework
and, most recently, a rich client platform.
The EclipseWorld conference, to be held at the famous
Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, will help enterprise IT developers,
development managers, software architects, test/QA teams and other
professionals learn how to use and apply Eclipse technologies throughout the
software development life cycle.
The Eclipse platform is hosted by the Eclipse Foundation,
a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation. BZ Media is an associate
member of the Eclipse Foundation.
"Eclipse is pleased to welcome BZ Media's launch of
EclipseWorld," said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse
Foundation. "Adoption of Eclipse-based tools and technologies is on the
rise, and developers and development managers are looking for education and
training. We think that it's important that leading-edge media companies
like BZ Media are taking the initiative with this enterprise-focused
conference."
The conference will consist of one full day of tutorials
and two days of technical classes. More than 400 attendees are expected at
this exclusive, timely and topical conference. In addition, 20 sponsors are
expected to demonstrate their Eclipse-based products, plug-ins and
technologies at a separate expo hall.
The Call for Speakers is now open at
www.eclipseworld.net.
Proposals for full-day tutorials and technical classes are due by April 18,
2005.
Questions about EclipseWorld should be directed to Donna
Esposito, Director of Events, at
desposito@bzmedia.com or +1-415-785-3419.
