KPIT cummins, first Indian co to join Eclipse Foundation

Pune, Oct 13 (UNI) KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd today joined the Eclipse Foundation to reduce the development time of software products by almost 40 per cent and to broaden the development and deployment of the development tools base for its customers.

KPIT, a leader in engineering solutions for the Semiconductor and Automotive Industry, became part of the Eclipse community as an Add-In Provider member. The Eclipse Foundation is an independent not-for-profit consortium of software industry vendors. Many notable software tool vendors have embraced Eclipse platform as a future framework for their IDE (integrated development environment, a computer program that assists programmers to develop software).

This announcement indicates KPIT's seriousness in becoming the first company to design development components in India. The Eclipse platform is slated to become the de facto standard of IDE tools (Integrated Development Environment, a computer program that assists programmers to develop software) development. KPIT has developed more than 20 plug-in components for the semiconductor industry based on the Eclipse platform.

Semiconductor solutions contribute as much as 10% of KPIT's total revenues as of now.

"We see this membership as a great opportunity for collaborating with the Eclipse community and as a major thrust in our journey of designing development tools for embedded developers worldwide. The Development Tools team within Semiconductor solutions Group of our organization has already released Eclipse-based IDE for embedded developers targeted for a microcontroller family. We plan to use Eclipse in our future strategic products." said Praveen Acharya, Vice-President, ATS-Semiconductor Solutions Group, KPIT Cummins Infosystems Ltd.

Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation has quoted, "We welcome KPIT Cummins as a full member of the Eclipse Add-In-Provider and Eclipse Membership At Large communities, a first for an Indian company. We acknowledge that Development Tools are a significant part of KPIT Cummins' services for the semiconductor industry and expect the tools built on Eclipse platform to delight its customers.", a press relese stated.

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