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Today, the Eclipse Foundation put out its annual release train, which encompasses technologies from 33 different open source project teams, and work from 44 different organizations. Eclipse is an open source community whose many projects are focused on open development platforms. For several years, the Eclipse Foundation has been increasingly focusing on developers in enterprises. The new release, dubbed Galileo, is definitely focused on expanding the use of Eclipse in enterprises, and features new support for Mac Cocoa 32, and a new PHP toolkit. You can download the projects in the release train here. ?Here are more details, including a free upcoming virtual conference on Galileo that you can attend.

Early this morning, the Eclipse Foundation announced the Pulsar Initiative, a joint effort to create an open, standard mobile application development platform. The Pulsar Initiative is led by the mobile device manufacturers Motorola, Nokia and Genuitec, while industry leaders such as IBM, RIM, and Sony Ericsson Mobile are among the participating members.

The Pulsar Initiative's first goal is to define a common set of Eclipse-based tools in a packaged distribution, allowing developers to create mobile applications for multiple devices using a single, familiar development environment. This saves developer's time (and sanity) by bringing applications to more devices without needing to be intimately familiar with every handset's software development kit.