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Microsoft announces it’s joining the open source Eclipse Foundation
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Published onMarch 8, 2016
published onMarch 8, 2016
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The Eclipse Foundation is the non-profit which oversees Eclipse, an open source community building developer tools. Microsoft has a history of working with the Eclipse Foundation and building integrations with Visual Studio Team Services and Microsoft Azure. Today,Microsoft announced it will be further supporting open source technologiesby joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Solutions Member.
In today’s statement, Shanku Niyogi, General Manager of the Visual Studio Team, said:
Joining the Eclipse Foundation enables us to collaborate more closely with the Eclipse community, deliver a great set of tools and services for all development teams, and continuously improve our cloud services, SDKs and tools.
Microsoft also announced new interoperability between Azure, Visual Studio Team Services, and Codenvy’s workspace automation tools built on Eclipse Che. With this new interoperability Codenvy workspaces can be activated on-demand from within Microsoft’s tools. The Azure VM Marketplace also now includes a virtual machine preconfigured with Codenvy.
Finally, Microsoft announced even more tools and services specifically for Java and Eclipse developers, including:
Along with yesterday’s huge news that SQL Server willnow be available on Linux, Microsoft’s recent trend of embracing open source technology seems to be picking up steam. Potentially, more news will come atBuild 2016, Microsoft’s conference for developers later this month.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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