Google Promotes Open Source in Partnership with Eclipse
November 5, 2012
News from The H Open informs us that Google is embracing Eclipse and open source. We learn in the article “Google Becomes Strategic Member of the Eclipse Foundation” that Google has been welcomed by the Eclipse Foundation as a new strategic member for the open source company. What does this mean for Eclipse? The corporation will gain $250,000 in donations from the search giant as well as eight full-time developers.
The article continues:
“The company’s involvement in the Eclipse community is not new. It had long been an Eclipse Foundation Gold Sponsor. Google staff have also frequently collaborated as committers on a range of Eclipse projects and developed tools for the Eclipse platform to improve support for Google projects such as the Android SDK, AppEngine, GWT and Dart. Google projects such as WindowBuilder and CodePro Profiler have also previously been adopted as Eclipse projects. In September, Google also contributed $20,000 to the Foundation to purchase hardware to help performance testing of the Eclipse IDE.”
Google joins Eclipse in the shadow of other big names such as CA Technologies, Oracle, and IBM. Does this mean Google is following in the footsteps of these big companies in the continued use and promotion of open source software? Looks like the days of open source being embraced by only small companies and startups are gone. We are interested to see where this is headed.
Andrea Hayden, November 05, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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