Eclipse Foundation Selects Palamida Software

Palamida^TM, a provider of software intellectual property (IP) management and compliance products and services, today announced Eclipse Foundation's purchase of the Palamida IP Amplifier. Eclipse uses IP Amplifier to review software submitted by project members as part of the Eclipse development process and to validate its compliance with software licensing requirements of the Eclipse Foundation.

The Eclipse Foundation coordinates the work of a large community of open source developers and as part of this process, there is a core requirement to evaluate the intellectual property ownership of contributed software on an on-going basis.

"Companies worldwide are utilizing open source projects developed by the Eclipse community, and many ISVs base their products on Eclipse technologies," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. "For our community it is essential that we maintain the highest standards of IP due diligence."

IP Amplifier compares software code to a database of more than 100,000 open source projects, the largest such library assembled for this purpose, and reports on the open source content identified, as well as associated licenses and other relevant data. Eclipse projects are among those included in the Palamida Compliance Library.

"The Eclipse Foundation is taking important steps toward increasing developer productivity," said Mark Tolliver, Palamida CEO. "Part of this effort entails working with its community developers to streamline software license compliance issues. We're proud to have been chosen by Eclipse to provide our solution for this distinguished group of developers."

About Eclipse
Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org .

About Palamida
Palamida answers the question "What's in your code?" by providing an unprecedented level of software transparency. By empowering customers with insightful information about their software assets, Palamida products and services offer accurate evaluations of software during acquisitions, on-going testing against intellectual property policy during application development and governance of software environments. Palamida's customers include Avaya, Cisco Systems, EMC, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, among others. Founded in 2003, Palamida's investors include Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Mitsui & Co. Venture Partners, WaldenVC and Stanford University. Read Palamida's blog at palamida.com/blog or for more information visit palamida.com .

Palamida is a trademark of Palamida, Inc.