Band XI Joins the Eclipse Foundation

WEST HARTFORD, CT. -- September 25, 2006 -- Band XI International, LLC, an agile software and systems company, today announced it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an Add-In Provider. The company plans to contribute work to the Eclipse Communications Framework and Eclipse Equinox Tooling. Band XI will collaborate with others to advance the application of Eclipse tooling and runtimes in the embedded space.

John Cunningham, President of Band XI International, said, "Eclipse tooling and runtimes critically enable our ability to reliably and consistently deliver solutions for our customers in the embedded space. For years, we have benefited from the hard work and commitment of the Eclipse community. Beyond just the software offerings, we have found the Eclipse community to be populated with good citizens – people who care passionately about their craft and deliver. Now, we would like to share our expertise so that others may benefit from our experiences."

About the Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and frameworks that span the software development lifecycle, including support for modeling, language development environments for Java, C/C++ and others, testing and performance, business intelligence, rich client applications and embedded development. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities and research institutions and individuals extend, complement and support the Eclipse Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member-supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org.

About Band XI International

Band XI is a small, agile, boutique problem-solving software and systems shop that specializes in using open-source and open standards-based software tools and frameworks to solve real-world problems. Band XI offers their customers years of experience crafting OSGi architected Java™ application, framework, component and tooling solutions. Band XI personnel have two decades of successful agile management and technical experience in a variety of domains, spanning mobile and embedded applications, database backed websites, and enterprise level applications.

Band XI International is a corporate member of the Agile Alliance and its staff are also members of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN), and the Scrum Alliance. Band XI is engaged in delivering mentoring and systems delivery projects for both commercial and government customers, including the US Army.

With headquarters in West Hartford, CT and an office in Scottsdale, AZ Band XI International supports both open source values and corporate customers' needs in a profitable, sustainable business. For more information about Band XI, please visit www.bandxi.com.

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