Ottawa, Canada – July 20, 2011
The Eclipse Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new open source initiative to define and implement a standard platform for the software development tools used in the automotive industry.
BMW Group, Robert Bosch GmbH, Continental AG and Itemis AG are founding members of the initiative. The new Eclipse Automotive Industry Working Group will be open to any organizations that want to participate in the goal of establishing a standard tools platform that will be used throughout the automotive supply chain.
In reality, the initiative has taken the first steps several years ago (2002) with the definition of the AUTOSAR partnership and then the platform ARTOP.
The new group intends to further strengthen this commitment by promoting the adoption of modular tools based on Eclipse Platform.

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