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Revision as of 14:05, 4 September 2006 by Ian.skerrett.eclipse.org (Talk | contribs) (Research Papers of Interest)

BOILERPLATES

General Boilerplate

For press releases or other public relations materials that require a standard description of Eclipse, the following template can be used:

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++, PHP 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.
(111 words)

Linux Audience Boilerplate

For a Linux Audience, the following modified description can be used:

Eclipse is an open source community focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Developers can benefit from Eclipse’s popular Java/C/C++ development environments and test and performance tools. Eclipse also provides the frameworks for creating native rich client applications that run on Windows and Linux.
(50 words)

Tag

For press releases where a tag is required, use:

Tag: an open source community committed to implementation of a universal development platform.


LOGOS

Different styles, file formats, and sizes of the Eclipse logo are available from eclipse.org. Note that the PMS colour listed for the 2-colour logo, 187-2, is a process (4-colour, CMYK) colour, not a matte colour.


RESEARCH

Research Sites

BZ Media

Evans Data Corporation

Forrester


Research Papers of Interest

The Forrester Wave: Open Source Projects, Q2 2006

Developers Choice - Over 1200 Developers Rank the Top IDEs, Spring 2006

Second Annual Eclipse Adoption Study, November 2005

Second Annual Eclipse User Survey by Evans Data

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