Eclipse Galileo Releases 33 Open Source Projects

June 25, 2009

The Eclipse Foundation is today making its biggest release of the year, highlighting open source projects created using the Eclipse development platform. Its new Galileo release -- the latest in the group's annual "release train" roundup -- includes 33 open source projects that were built with contributions from 44 different organizations.

The Galileo release also marks an increase for Eclipse in the number of projects it releases as part of its annual release train event. In the 2008 Gannymede release, Eclipse unveiled 23 projects.

While the projects that make up Galileo are all open source, the primary driver behind the release train is to encourage greater commercial adoption. Eclipse-based tools are already used by many companies including IBM, Oracle, Nokia and SAP, among others.

"By wrapping up all these projects and shipping them together, it makes it a lot easier for companies to pick up the Eclipse platform and base their product on top of it," Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, told InternetNews.com. "Lining up all the product releases on the same day means that inter-dependencies between the projects are aligned, version compatibility issues are taken care of, and you don't get the latency you might have if a project is waiting for another project to ship."...

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Source: Internetnews.com