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Framework for Success


By David Rubinstein
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September 15, 2005 —  (Page 1 of 3)
NEW YORK — Here’s what Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation, wanted you to take away from the recent inaugural EclipseWorld conference: Eclipse is more than a Java IDE, and the organization is independent of IBM.

“We’re growing up as a community and growing as a platform,” he said in a lounge at The Roosevelt Hotel after his opening keynote address at the conference, which was produced by this newspaper’s parent company, BZ Media. “But it takes enormous time to change people’s perception. We have to stay on message for a long time.”

Perception is one thing, but the reality is that 101 companies have become members of the organization. There are more than 45 open-source projects under way right now. There have been more than 50 million download requests to date.

From its humble beginnings as an IBM-sponsored open-source project for its partners to the foundation’s formation in 2003, Eclipse has gone from being positioned by IBM as a Java IDE to a future as a complete development platform with tooling, life-cycle management and rich runtimes. Not bad for four years.

“Was this something I could have imagined? Yes,” Milinkovich said of the framework’s takeoff. “[But] if I seriously thought about the rate and pace of adoption and new projects, I’d say it caught me by surprise.”

Milinkovich cites the organization’s governance model when discussing why the group has been so successful in bringing together software companies that often compete with one another. “They’re participating using the same rules as everyone else,” he explained. “They can share the costs and risks with their partners and competitors.

“So much software is being developed that is just hygiene; there is zero competitive advantage from supporting every standard,” he continued. “Why wouldn’t you want to share the cost of implementing” the underlying APIs that are at the core of new Eclipse projects?

In Eclipse, when the work is done, everyone has it at the same time, Milinkovich noted, taking a swipe at other organizations that accept completed, implemented projects from a small number of software companies and proclaim the work a standard, without industry input or review. “And even after all that standard work, you’re not sure you have something that will drive real business value to customers,” he said.




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