Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure to participate to DASIA in Malta. There was most of the European actors of the Space Industry, and (not so) suprisingly lot of participants from Toulouse . I presented OPEES, the “Open Platform for the Engineering of Embedded Systems” in the track chaired by Paul Arberet from CNES: It was an opportunity to present this new type of Open Source organization, the 4th one (see slide 12). These consortia like OPEES for embedded software for critical systems of Genivi for the Automotive industry mainly focus on Industrial Users needs and see Open Source as an enabler to create sustainable software ecosystems. That’s good news that Open Source now gathers interest from companies for which Software is not the main asset. Indeed, even if planes, satellites or cars embed more and more software, the results is not just a web site or a piece of software to download. Even in this case, Open Source offers many interests like the capability to cla...

Une fois de plus cette année, j’ai eu le plaisir de participer à Solutions Linux. Je présentais OPEES, the “Open Platform for the Engineering of Embedded Systems” dans la track Communautés conduite par Bruno Cornec. Voir le blog de Bruno sur cette session. Dans le slide 12, j’ai pu commencer à exposer l’idée selon laquelle on voit émerger une nouvelle génération d’organisations Open Source, la 4ème : il s’agit de consortiums pilotés par les besoins des utilisateurs industriels, comme Opees, mais aussi Genivi dans le domaine de l’Automobile, … J’y reviendrai bientôt. J’ai aussi eu l’occasion de faire une interview sur le sujet pour IntelinTV avec Philippe Scoffoni. Toujours sur le même thème, j’étais la semaine suivante à DASIA, pour présenter OPEES au monde du spatial. Lien d'origineAuteur d'origine: gblondelle...

The indigo release will be the first year the Eclipse Modeling package is no more marked as "incubating". As I'm checking the status of every component I'm wondering : do you, end users of the package, want an SDK package or not ? I, as of now, considered that using EMF&co without the SDK was a real pain, but maybe I'm not the best representative and I'd like your feedback. Especially considering that now with the provisionning capabilities of Eclipse we also have a third option : transforming your non-SDK to an SDK package in one click.So here is the poll, it will stay online for one week and it needs like, 2 secs, for you to fill :Loading...What are the implications ? Non-SDK package mean smaller package (around 100mo probably) or package with more modeling tools. On the other end SDK package means you can start using EMF&co as frameworks right away.The poll will be on for a few days, go ahead and pick your choice !Lien d'origineAuteur d'origine: Cédric Brun...

Finally we did it !After 5 Release Candidates, we finally released EEF 0.9 (a.k.a. Extended Editing Framework ;))! You can now download it on the EEF release update site!What can you expect for this version:Generate editors with EEF: EEF provides a new model (which is actually an extension of the existing EEF models) enabling you to model editor pages to generate sexy Forms Editors.A cool new widget: EEF RichText - Based on the RichText widget of the EPF project, you can now edit your text properties (like documentation) in a Rich mode!Finally an important step is a real better compatibility with EMF.edit framework. Modify your item providers and you'll find your very own features in the EEF views!Now don't hesitate: Download it! Try it! Enjoy it! And give us your feedback to make EMF models editing really sexy!Lien d'origineAuteur d'origine: Goulwen...

At EclipseCon 2010, I do an original talk about business model. I was very happy to see so many persons to listen a non-technical talk.My goal wasn't to explain generalities about FOSS business models (a very good talk was done by Neelan Choksi, the president and COO of Tasktop, and is available at http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/sessions/?page=sessions&id=2299).My goal was to explain our own story, why we continually adapt our commercial offer (service or product), and how we succeed to find a nice way to make money with free software.Eg: provide for free our code generation tooling, and selling legacy migration solutions!I also explained how Eclipse Foundation help us to find a way to increase the visibility of our work (and so, to increase the number of leads).Story of a successfull business model based on eclipse View more presentations from Etienne Juliot Lien d'origineAuteur d'origine: Etienne Juliot...