Eclipse survey shows Windows decline

By tim, on June 30th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

In May 2009 the open source Eclipse project surveyed its users. Visitors to the Eclipse site were asked to complete a survey, and 1365 did so. That’s out of around 1 million visitors, which shows how much we all hate surveys. Anyway, this report [pdf] was the result. A similar survey [pdf] was carried

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June 30th, 2009 | Category: eclipse, ibm, internet, java, microsoft, open source, oracle, software, software development, visual studio, windows | Leave a comment

Open Cloud Manifesto – but from a closed group?

By tim, on March 30th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I’ve read the Open Cloud Manifesto with interest. It’s hard to find much to disagree with; I especially like this point on page 5:

Cloud providers must not use their market position to lock customers into their particular platforms and limit their choice of providers.

Companies like IBM won’t do that? I’m sceptical. Still,

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March 30th, 2009 | Category: adobe, amazon, google, ibm, internet, microsoft, Sun | Leave a comment

Erich Gamma on Eclipse and Jazz

By tim, on March 12th, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

Erich Gamma spoke at Qcon London on the subject of “How Eclipse changed my views on software development.” Or did he? This was a somewhat schizophrenic talk; in part an articulation of general development principles, and in part a description of how Eclipse is developed. Gamma spelt out the Eclipse philosophy, the starting point

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March 12th, 2008 | Category: eclipse, ibm, java, open source, software development | 2 comments

Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz makes the case for free and open source software

By tim, on February 21st, 2008 Follow tim on Twitter

I interviewed Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz last week, and wrote it up for Guardian Technology. By the way, the picture is much better in the print edition.

Sun is gambling on open source – not only open source, but free software. This is possibly easier for Sun that it would be for, say, Microsoft

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February 21st, 2008 | Category: apple, google, ibm, microsoft, open source, oracle, Sun | 2 comments