On June 1, 2003, the Eclipse.org was named the winner of the first annual SD Times 100 award in the "Standards Bodies and Consortia," category. The SD Times 100 recognizes 2002's leaders and innovators of the software development industry.

"The SD Times 100 looked for companies which set a direction that developers and the industry followed in 2002" said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "When choosing the SD Times 100, we carefully considered each company's offerings and reputation, as well as the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry."

Specifically regarding Eclipse, which was recognized in the "Standards Bodies and Consortia" category, the editors wrote, "Despite its early history and controversial dispute with Sun's NetBeans project, IBM's Eclipse open-source IDE project took a commanding lead, winning incredible third-party acceptance."

"Eclipse is honored to be chosen as one of the SD Times 100," said John Wiegand, Eclipse project lead. "The community has worked hard to ensure that the Eclipse Platform is a highly productive platform for creating, integrating and deploying application development tools for use across a broad range of operating environments."

About SD Times
Launched in February 2000, BZ Media's SD Times is the newspaper of record for the software-development industry. SD Times is published twice monthly in identical print and digital editions and can also be read online at www.sdtimes.com.