Borland amplifies Eclipse support

BANGALORE: Borland Software Corporation, the global leader for Software Delivery Optimization solutions, today announced a significant expansion in the company's support for Eclipse, an open-source community and universal development platform supporting multiple languages, deployment platforms and technologies. Borland will play a new leadership role in advancing Eclipse technology by joining the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors as a Strategic Developer. The company will also commit a full-time development team to expand the Eclipse platform and contribute to areas such as modeling that play an important role in Borland's vision for Software Delivery Optimization.

As part of this increased investment, Borland will expand its use of Eclipse as a platform across its Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product line. This, along with Borland's increasing support for Microsoft Visual Studio, can continue to give customers enterprise-strength ALM solutions on the technology of their choice, while still helping reduce the growing complexity of heterogeneous IT environments. Eclipse and Visual Studio have become two of the leading development platforms today. Borland will help customers to bridge these technologies and better leverage the investments they've made in them.

"Since joining the organization as a founding member, we've seen Eclipse evolve into something that is much more than just an integrated development environment (IDE)," said Pat Kerpan, chief technology officer at Borland.

Borland's ability to leverage Eclipse in its solutions and services for Software Delivery Optimization will benefit Eclipse users, as well as Borland customers and partners. It will enable Eclipse users to take advantage of Borland's wide range of enterprise-class ALM products. It will also enable Borland customers to take advantage of the rapidly growing Eclipse ecosystem, plug-ins and advancements on the Eclipse open source projects. For Borland partners, it will provide a common integration platform to help reduce costs and speed the delivery of integrated offerings.

In an effort to drive ALM advancements on the Eclipse platform, Borland will also lead the proposal for a new graphical modeling framework that would build upon, bridge and extend the existing modeling technology within the Eclipse community. Modeling continues to gain traction as enterprises look to reduce IT complexity, improve team efficiency and collaboration and more closely connect IT and business requirements. It is an important element of Borland's Software Delivery Optimization strategy and Borland will make a significant investment in expanding Eclipse to better address this area.

As a strong proponent for open systems, platform independence and customer choice, Borland will continue to support and build out products and services on both Eclipse and the Microsoft Visual Studio framework. Borland will also continue to advance the features and capabilities of its award-winning JBuilder Java IDE.

"Borland's extensive experience and expertise with application lifecycle management is a great asset for advancing the Eclipse vision of a universal development platform," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "We look forward to Borland's contributions to our Board of Directors, as a project leader, as a contributor of innovative technology and as a vocal advocate for the Eclipse platform."