Thales, the international electronics and systems group serving the defence, aerospace, services and security markets announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an add-in provider. The Eclipse Foundation is a community committed to the implementation of a universal software platform for building integrated software development environments (IDEs) that can be used to create diverse types of applications.
"As a world-wide leader in the areas of mission critical, large-scale software systems and of open software architectures, Thales is proud to be a new member of the Eclipse Foundation", said Dominique Potier, Thales Chief Scientist for Software Technologies. "Thales Eclipse membership is part of our policy of proactive support of open software technologies and we see Eclipse as an increasingly important player in the area of open-source development platforms." Eclipse technology is already part of the core foundation of Thales integrated system and software development environment used for major aerospace programmes. Thales is also contributing to the Eclipse project WebTools and takes advantage of Eclipse technologies for the deployment of its Model Driven Development strategy.
"The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to have Thales join the Eclipse community", said Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. "Thales\' use of the Eclipse technology is breaking new ground in the aerospace and embedded industries. Their active contribution to the WebTools Platform project and their initiatives in the area of Model Driven Development are extremely important to the evolution Eclipse open source technology."
About Thales
Thales is a global electronics and systems group serving defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide. It employs 61,500 staff and generated revenues of 10.6 billion euros in 2003.
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