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Instantiations CEO Elected to Eclipse Board; Michael Taylor Sees Profitability As Key to Future Eclipse Success

Posted on: Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 09:01 CDT

Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of advanced software development solutions, announced today that CEO Michael Taylor was recently elected to one of eight elective positions on the Eclipse Foundation board. The Eclipse Foundation is a nonprofit organization providing open source, extensible development software for building cross-platform applications.

Involved since the conception of an Eclipse consortium in 2000, Taylor was on the committee that helped the group establish a nonprofit foundation in 2003. He served two years as the chair of the foundation's marketing committee and currently heads the market research working group.

"Eclipse already has the best technology and software platform for developing critical applications," said Taylor. "That lets us meet the technical needs of our customers and users. Now we need to assure that Eclipse Foundation member companies can profit from their investments. Creating viable business models based on open-source software is an emerging area and the foundation can help software companies break new ground. Meeting the needs of both the consumers and the producers of Eclipse technology is key to the foundation's continued success."

According to Taylor, the Eclipse development environment and the new Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) are emerging alternatives that are important for developers who want their software applications to run on multiple operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Eclipse RCP simplifies the creation of true cross-operating system software and makes new system development much more efficient.

At EclipseCon in March, Instantiations announced RCP Developer(TM). The first set of software tools specifically designed to support Eclipse RCP development and deployment, RCP Developer helps software developers build Java clients and desktop applications faster and with more cross-application user interface consistency. For the same effort it once took to build a Windows-only application, developers also get Linux and Mac capability.

About 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 life cycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. Major technology companies, innovative start-ups, universities, 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.

About Instantiations

Instantiations, Inc. provides leading-edge software products, services and technologies for Eclipse, Java and Smalltalk. Instantiations offers professional software development products that integrate seamlessly with the latest eclipse-based development platforms and provide unprecedented capabilities to companies around the world. Instantiations is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and offers a line of products for Eclipse, IBM Rational and WebSphere Studio and other Eclipse-based products. Based in Portland, Ore., Instantiations was founded in 1997 by a team of internationally recognized pioneers in the field of component software technology. For more information, visit www.instantiations.com. Or call the company at 800-808-3737.

RCP Developer is a trademark of Instantiations, Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.

Source: Business Wire

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