I ended up with a nasty flu for two days this week so I missed out on EclipseCon held earlier this week. Interesting to see that Microsoft was at EclipseCon and Sam Ramji did one of the keynotes. While Microsoft doesn't appear to be practicing open source in any real way, they are certainly paying more attention to it. Sam announced some new collaboration with Eclipse, which is a good first step. But I'd like to I ended up with a nasty flu for two days this week so I missed out on EclipseCon held earlier this week. Interesting to see that Microsoft was at EclipseCon and Sam Ramji did one of the keynotes. While Microsoft doesn’t appear to be practicing open source in any real way, they are certainly paying more attention to it. Sam announced some new collaboration with Eclipse, which is a good first step. But I’d like to see Microsoft go further and I think they’ll need to if they want to be relevant to the next generation of developers.For those who follow such matters, MySQL has renewed its Eclipse membership. And since we’re a part of Sun, I guess that means Sun is now a member of Eclipse. Open Source