Eclipse Conference

["Carol Kelly" <ckelly@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Software Professional,

Open source community leaders, including Michael Tiemann, CTO of Red Hat,
Grady Booch of IBM Rational, Erich Gamma of the Eclipse Java Dev Tools
project, Gregor Kiczales of the University of B.C., and John Wiegand of the
Eclipse Platform project, head a lineup of speakers slated for EclipseCon
2004, a new technical conference organized by the Eclipse open source
consortium.

Scheduled for Feb. 2-5, 2004 in Anaheim, Calif., EclipseCon is being
produced and managed by the Object Management Group, an Eclipse consortium
member. Sponsors to date include Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Rational
Software, SAP, Catalyst Systems Corp., ETRI, INNOOPRACT, Intel Corp., MKS
Inc., Scapa Technologies, and SlickEdit Inc. www.eclipsecon.org/sm

The event is targeted to developers, software architects, technical
managers, systems integrators, thought leaders and other software
development tools producers and consumers using or interested in learning
more about Eclipse's exciting technology and the depth and breadth of the
Eclipse ecosystem.  The program is designed to enhance the interaction and
dialog between attendees through a demo track, poster session,
Birds-of-a-Feather meetings, and technology roundtables.
www.eclipsecon.org/sm

Attendees will learn about the culture of open tools, why and how the
Eclipse technology evolved, the drive behind the rapid open platform
development process, the wide range of open source, free, and commercial
Eclipse-based offerings, and how Eclipse and Eclipse-based offerings apply
to a broad range of computing applications.  EclipseCon presents an
opportunity to meet key members of the ecosystem and Eclipse open source
project.

To learn more about the conference and to register, visit:
www.eclipsecon.org/sm


Carol Kelly
Object Management Group
Florida (813) 389-5131
ckelly@xxxxxxx