"We're delighted,"  said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation and a keynote speaker at the upcoming cross-platform technology event, Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo in Boston, "to have CA contribute to the success of the Eclipse Platform and the TPTP Project. The commitment of global companies like CA demonstrates the momentum behind our initiatives and importance of our work for the IT community."

"Joining the Eclipse Foundation underscores CA's commitment to embrace the open source paradigm," said Yogesh Gupta, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Computer Associates, as CA announced yesterday that it was joining the Eclipse Foundation.

CA will contribute code to the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Top-Level Project and has also been appointed by the TPTP Project Management Committee (PMC) as the TPTP Monitoring Tools Project Lead.

CA has already been working closely with the Eclipse Project to fully integrate its AllFusion Harvest Change Manager with Eclipse 3.0.

"AllFusion Harvest Change Manager manages all stages of the software life cycle to improve the quality, reliability and auditability of both traditional and web-based applications to streamline the development process," says a CA spokesman. "Access and use of AllFusion Harvest Change Manager from any Eclipse environment provides a single point of control for changes, automates resource tracking, helps to satisfy audit and government requirements for record-keeping and management reporting, and increases programmer productivity."

"CA will work closely with the Eclipse community to broaden the spectrum of the test and performance tools available on the Eclipse Platform," promised CA's Gupta.