Four years at Eclipse
On Oct. 1, 2004 I started my first day on the job with the Eclipse Foundation. If memory serves me correctly, that day — my first day on the job — I was in a meeting with the folks from IBM and the folks from our ISP (Primus) discussing
a) how we were going to move the IBM-hosted Eclipse server to our new ISP
b) what kind of resources we’d need (bandwidth, switching, routing and firewall gear)
c) plans to migrate all of Eclipse.org to a new set of servers
Talk about being thrown into action on the first day. Right then and there I knew I was in deep trouble it would be a challenging job, and it has been. It still is. And it’s fun.
Just in time to celebrate my 4th birthday, Nathan has committed a brand new Eclipse.org homepage. Let’s walk down memory lane and look at our website circa 2004-2005:
Downloads Page, Oct 1 2004
Back then, if you wanted to download Eclipse, we sent you off to a mirror site right away. The mirror site may or may not work, and you had to decrypt wicked file naming conventions.
Downloads Page - first edition featuring the SDK and easy mirror selection, Apr. 2005
Posted October 1st, 2008 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Karl Matthias Says:
October 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Happy Eclipse birthday boss!
If I remember correctly, my first day was Nov 1. 