Update of Eclipse Platform

[Michel Héon]

Hello
Currently, if my information is good, Topbraid Composer is built on Eclipse's Neon distribution. Is there a plan to upgrade to a more recent version of Eclipse in the near future? And will the free-edition version follow this upgrade?
Thank you

Michel

[Holger Knublauch]

On 11/24/2020 8:15 PM, Michel Héon wrote:
> Hello
> Currently, if my information is good, Topbraid Composer is built on
> Eclipse's Neon distribution. Is there a plan to upgrade to a more
> recent version of Eclipse in the near future?

We could do this potentially. Do you have particular reasons why you
need a specific Eclipse version?

> And will the free-edition version follow this upgrade?

Sorry, we no longer publish TBC-FE. Only older versions can still be
downloaded.

Holger

[Michel Héon]

Thank you Holger for this answer

Giving up the evolution of TBC-FE is very bad news... It's a tool I use a lot to introduce my students and clients to the use of semantic web technologies and to promote TopQuadrant solutions. 

Would you be willing to open the code to make it an OpenSource solution... or even competitive with Protégé?

As an Semantic Web Enterprise Architect here at UQAM I would no doubt be willing here at the University to develop a collaboration with you in this regard to ensure the scalability of this product at minimum cost for you. 

Michel

[Holger Knublauch]

On 11/25/2020 7:30 PM, Michel Héon wrote:

Thank you Holger for this answer

Giving up the evolution of TBC-FE is very bad news... It's a tool I use a lot to introduce my students and clients to the use of semantic web technologies and to promote TopQuadrant solutions. 

Would you be willing to open the code to make it an OpenSource solution... or even competitive with Protégé?

As an Semantic Web Enterprise Architect here at UQAM I would no doubt be willing here at the University to develop a collaboration with you in this regard to ensure the scalability of this product at minimum cost for you.

Hi Michel,

as a commercial vendor our goal with introducing TBC-FE (several years ago) was of course to increase the potential outreach of our products, e.g. by helping the overall community to grow. After careful evaluation we decided to cut the costs of maintaining the three editions of TBC, so alongside the Standard Edition we also dropped the Free Edition. We simply didn't see enough evidence that the Free Edition was indeed contributing to more sales. The web products (TopBraid EDG) is where the money is. Maintaining too many different things (including open source projects) is detrimental to delivering sufficient quality in the web product line.

Apologies if this causes you problems. We have barely changed TBC in recent years apart from TBC-ME-only features that mainly supported the web products. Therefore you wouldn't have seen many changes to TBC-FE either. The downloads of the (old) TBC-FE version would be almost identical to any new version that we would have uploaded in the last couple of years.

Regards,
Holger

Michel

Le mardi 24 novembre 2020 à 05 h 15 min 58 s UTC-5, Michel Héon a écrit :

Hello
Currently, if my information is good, Topbraid Composer is built on Eclipse's Neon distribution. Is there a plan to upgrade to a more recent version of Eclipse in the near future? And will the free-edition version follow this upgrade?
Thank you

Michel

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