Join Us | The Eclipse Foundation

Membership

Becoming part of the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools (ECD Tools) Working Group demonstrates your commitment to the evolution and sustainability of industry-leading cloud native development tools, while also ensuring the growth and development of a well-governed, vendor-neutral open source ecosystem that benefits all.

Here are just some of the reasons ECD Tools is trusted by industry leaders:

The Eclipse Foundation has deep development tool experience, providing the perfect platform for enabling the future of cloud native tools.
ECD Tools has an excellent track record of promoting open cloud tools projects and attracting new developers and users. Through this partnership, ECD Tools members are able to gain traction for projects, which results in accelerated adoption of their commercial products.
The Eclipse Foundation’s clear, vendor-neutral rules for intellectual property sharing and decision-making make it easy to collaborate with other organizations to drive rapid innovation.
The Foundation’s legal and intellectual property processes enable members to fully comply with antitrust laws and provide members with the legal assurance that they can successfully embed open source technology into their commercial products.
The Eclipse Development Process is a set of best practices that guide member organizations during the creation of open source projects.

Benefits

ECD Tools Working Group member benefits:

Collaborate with industry leaders in the development of common open tool platforms for Cloud IDEs, container management, cloud application deployment, and more.
Participate in defining strategic priorities for ECD Tools.
Gain access to unique insights and market data supporting the ECD Tools roadmap and direction.
Learn best practices to leverage open Cloud Development Tool technologies in order to accelerate product development and improve time-to-revenue.
Help define and build the Open VSX marketplace of VS Code extensions

Working Group Charter

Participation Agreement

Strategic Members

Participant Members

Guest Members

What Our Members are Saying

"In our customer projects around the globe, we can observe an increasing demand for web-based and cloud-based tooling….We believe the Eclipse ecosystem has the potential to be a core ecosystem for web-based tooling in the upcoming decade."

Dr. Jonas Helming, General Manager at EclipseSource

"Developer tools are critical in accelerating adoption of new technology and enabling enterprise developers in the modernization journey to the cloud. Working at Eclipse will expand tools communities for containerized applications on Kubernetes and offer developers the tools needed for cloud-based scenarios. Developers will benefit, as will our customers."

Danny Mace, Vice President, Hybrid Cloud App Platform at IBM

"Developers today are building applications for the hybrid cloud. They are focused on the speed of collaboration and development in order to out-flank their competitors. Red Hat is working with ECD Tools to provide new open source alternatives to these technology stacks while giving developers the tools they need to get their software to market faster."

Brad Micklea, VP of Developer Tools and Advocacy at Red Hat

"As a strategic member of the Eclipse Foundation, SAP actively participates in the Eclipse Che, Dirigible,Theia, and Orion projects. The ECD Tools Working Group increases the synergy between all relevant parties by creating shared concepts and standards, and fosters further collaboration in an open environment."

Michael Wintergerst, Senior Vice President, head of SAP Cloud Platform Core at SAP

"At TypeFox, we build software tools and IDEs for experts. Moving our projects under the umbrella of the Eclipse Foundation has allowed other big players to join in a common endeavor to build the solid foundation for the next generation of web-based tools. The ECD Tools Working Group stands for the commitment to keep these frameworks industrial strength, truly open-source and vendor neutral."

Dr. Jan Köhnlein, Co-founder at TypeFox

Breadcrumb