11/25/2003 —

• Universal Tools Technology Achieves Growth and Recognition
• Early R3 Stream Stable Downloads Available Now

TBD-November 25, 2003-- Today, the Eclipse consortium, founded in November 2001 by Borland, IBM, MERANT, QNX Software Systems, Red Hat, and SUSE celebrated the second anniversary of the open projects that created the universal Eclipse tools platform. Since its inception, interest in Eclipse has grown at unprecedented rates - including over 18 million download requests from tools users worldwide. Tools and technology providers, and consumers including Individuals, commercial, research and educational projects now form the expanding ecosystem of Eclipse.

Since its introduction, Eclipse has been recognized with more than eight top industry awards and honors. Open technology and commercial offerings associated with Eclipse have also grown at an unprecedented rate for tools technology. Independent websites like http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net track over 405 projects that relate to Eclipse technology, plus there are numerous offerings from the supporting 49 member companies that form the Eclipse Consortium.

In the past two years, using Eclipse itself, and through an automated open build process that has provided over 700 nightly incremental updates, the Eclipse open projects have delivered two major versions and a dozen stable platform releases culminating in current Eclipse release R2.1.2. Early stream stable builds of Eclipse R3 became available October 10, 2003. Downloads are available without charge from http://www.eclipse.org.

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