The Eclipse development tools consortium gains momentum with the announcement of 13 members to its board of stewards and the introduction of three new open-source projects.

Developers like IBM and JBoss are eager to adopt Eclipse 3.1, with its expanded Java and Web development support.

The Eclipse Foundation provides our global community of individuals and organisations with a business-friendly environment for open source software collaboration and innovation.

Versant unveiling follows Oracle effort A tale of dueling open source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant and Oracle.

Looking to promote usage of Enterprise Java Beans for database access, Oracle proposes open-source tool based on its TopLink software.

At the EclipseCon event, Microsoft officials hinted that these first steps could lead to greater collaboration with the Eclipse community.