The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that acts as the steward of Eclipse, an open source community focused on "building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle." The most well-known of the Eclipse projects is the Eclipse platform, a multilanguage software development environment and IDE.[2]
The Eclipse Foundation's stated aim is to "cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services."[2] It is considered a 'third generation'[3] open-source organisation.
History
In 2003–2004 the Eclipse Consortium, an consortium of software industry vendors,[1] founded The Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit legal entity to lead and develop Eclipse.
Strategic members
Each strategic member has a representative on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors allowing them direct influence over the strategic direction of Eclipse. Strategic members also have a seat on the various Eclipse Councils providing input and influence over the themes and priorities of the Eclipse Ecosystem.[4]
| - IBM
- Innoopract
- itemis
- Obeo
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Other members
There are approximately 170 members[6] of the Eclipse Foundation representing most regions of the world, and many industries and technology segments.
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