[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: What is the future of RCP?

["Mike Milinkovich" <mike.milinkovich@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert Möstl" <robert.moestl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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I am in agreement with what Ian and Boris have already said, but just wanted 
to reinforce one item.

> But will eclipse be an application platform in the future too?

This is the key question. And the answer is most emphatically *yes*. All 
that is happening is that the scope of Eclipse as an application integration 
platform is widening. We focused 100% on RCP when the projects were working 
on desktop application integration technologies. Now that we have projects 
working on server-side (Swordfish, EclipseLink, RAP) and device-side (eRCP) 
runtimes, the messaging is widening to accomodate that.

Put another way, RCP is now part of the Eclipse runtime story, rather than 
being *the* Eclipse runtime story.

We at the EMO always struggle with trying to deliver marketing messages that 
try to explain what is going on in the projects. Let's face it: we don't 
tell the projects what to do, so our marketing is largely post-facto. It is 
trying to explain where the projects have already headed. It's an 
interesting challenge. Especially since our marketing resources are so 
limited.

Is this helpful? Do you feel we are on the right track, or do we need to 
reconsider our approach?