Blog about Ward Cunningham's departure from Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/edjez/archive/2005/10/17/so_long_Ward.aspx
Article: "Eclipse and HSQLDB: Embedding a Relational Database Server into Eclipse, Part 1" http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-echsql/?ca=lnxw961HSQLDB
EclipseCon conference http://www.eclipsecon.org/
Alternative technology websites:
Sun Microsystem's NetBeans http://www.netbeans.org/
JetBrain's IntellIJ http://www.jetbrains.com/
jEdit programmer's text editor http://www.jedit.org/