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Interview: Eclipse's Milinkovich on SOA, Ajax and integration
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04/05/2006, By Rich Seeley
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Mike Milinkovich is the executive director of Eclipse Foundation. He sat down with SearchWebServices.com to talk about the future of Eclipse, as well as SOA and Ajax, at the sold-out EclipseCon 2006 in Santa Clara, Calif.
Each year it seems this conference is getting larger and larger. Does that surprise you at all, or did you anticipate it would draw all these grass-roots coders?
Mike Milinkovich: Certainly we were not expecting to sell out this year. As a matter of fact, I can remember when we were first selecting this place [the Santa Clara Convention Center], Bjorn [Freeman-Benson, technical director of open source process and infrastructure for the Eclipse Foundation] had a conversation where he said: "We'll never sell this one out." Because we did sell out last year and it was a great conference. Part of the buzz of a conference is it's crowded and there's lots of people. You're running into people all the time. That's part of the fun of going to a conference. And we never thought that we would sell this place out. So yes, we were definitely surprised. We sold out four hotels.
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