[news.eclipse.tools.hyades] [NEWS] Expanded Broad-Based Eclipse Initiati

["Mark Johnson" <mark_johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Expanded Broad-Based Eclipse Initiative Delivers Open Test and Performance
Tools Platform

     LinuxWorld San Francisco 2004

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 2004--Eclipse

-- Major Open-Source Collaboration in Testing, Tracing, Profiling and
Monitoring
-- Cross-Vendor, Cross-Platform, Cross-Lifecycle
-- Open Platform and Extensible Exemplary Tooling
-- Hyades Project Builds on and Extends the Existing

Today the Eclipse Foundation announced the creation of a Test and
Performance Tools Platform Top Level Project to provide an open-development
platform supplying frameworks and services for test and performance tools
that are used throughout the software lifecycle (testing, tracing/profiling,
tuning, logging, monitoring, analysis, autonomics, administration, etc.).
Also included in this platform are data collection services and user
interfaces for tracing, test case execution, logging and statistical
behavior in local or remote execution environments. In committing to lead
the project, Intel Corp. makes a major resource contribution to the Eclipse
Foundation and to the development of software within the project.

"We are excited to contribute to the advancement that this Eclipse
open-source initiative brings to the industry in the area of test and
performance tooling," said Tyler Thessin, engineering manager for Intel
Software Development Products and lead of the Eclipse Test and Performance
Tools Project Management Committee. "This infrastructure -- and the tools
built upon it -- provide significant capabilities and benefits to the
software industry and will contribute to the continued success of Eclipse
and the growth of the Eclipse ecosystem."

This expanded initiative extends the Eclipse Hyades project which, over the
last year and a half, has developed extensive Eclipse-based infrastructure
and tooling for test and performance. "Hyades is one of the great
achievements of the Eclipse Community," said Mike Milinkovich, recently
appointed executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "In my new role, I
will seek to ensure Hyades gets the level of exposure and adoption that it
deserves."

The core interoperability layer continues to be developed in a project known
as the Hyades Core Platform led by Intel. Three additional streams of
activity have also been identified as projects within the Test and
Performance Top Level Project: Hyades Testing, Hyades Tracing and Profiling,
and Hyades Monitoring.

"The involvement of Intel and other significant companies will ensure wider
adoption of the open Hyades Core Platform as consensus architecture for
innovative value-added products," said Dr. Mike Norman, CEO of Scapa
Technologies, who led the original Hyades project and now leads the Hyades
Testing project. "For example, Intel will drive the adoption of the
infrastructure to enable developers to harness the full power of Intel
processors for applications."

Serge Lucio, senior product manager at IBM Rational who currently leads both
the Hyades Monitoring and the Hyades Tracing and Profiling Projects, said,
"IBM is committed both to developing the Hyades Core Platform and other
elements of Eclipse Test and Performance software and to leveraging them
across a broad spectrum of its products."

SAP, Compuware and FOKUS continue to actively contribute to the Test and
Performance project to provide a breadth of experience and a wide
perspective to the team.

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