"The Eclipse open-source group has named an Oracle executive as its first executive director since it gained independence from IBM.

Mike Milinkovich, who previously was vice president of Oracle's application server technical services, is slated to become executive director of Eclipse on Tuesday. The appointment follows the creation in February of a nonprofit in place of the consortium that IBM founded in 2001 under the same name. Until January, IBM executive Skip McGaughey had been the chairman.

...Milinkovich said in a statement that his top priorities as executive director include shipping the Eclipse 3.0 software in the early summer and the launch of a WebTools project for improving Web development tools. He also said he intends to form a management organization to supervise planning of Eclipse projects."

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