The Eclipse Phenomenon

• Eclipse is being widely used in industry

• • Unofficial statistics : 44% of Java developers (2004)

• Becoming a popular teaching tool in university

• Some projects in the scientific community

• • Gumtree (ANSTO), Offline analysis (SLAC, APS), EPICS Office, Fable (ESRF), Etomica (Buffalo)

• Eclipse's collaborative model is changing the future of the software industry