A Commitment to the Eclipse Foundation: Vector Supports the Community for Open Innovation and Collaboration

Stuttgart, GERMANY,  2023-05-03 – Vector is strengthening its commitment to the Eclipse Foundation: In addition to contributing to the further development of the integrated development environment Eclipse IDE, the Stuttgart-based specialist for automotive embedded software and system networking is taking on a responsible position on the Board of Directors. From April 1, 2023, to March 31, 2024, Johannes Matheis, a senior manager of the company, will represent the approximately 200 Contributing Members on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation as one of three elected representatives. "I already represent Vector on the Steering Committee of the Eclipse IDE Working Group. As a participant in various Eclipse conferences, I have followed the development of the Eclipse IDE and the Eclipse Foundation over the years. As a member of the Eclipse Board of Directors, I would like to strengthen my contribution even more," says Johannes Matheis, who helps shape the Eclipse-based development tool PREEvision at Vector. In addition to supporting the platform, Johannes Matheis wants to improve collaboration between the various working groups and strengthen the open-source mindset in companies: "The Eclipse IDE as the namesake and core of the Eclipse Foundation offers so much value. This needs to be clearly highlighted in order to secure the future of this vendor-neutral IDE." In addition to the model-based development platform PREEvision, which is used to design complete E/E systems for vehicles, and DaVinci Developer Adaptive for configuring AUTOSAR Adaptive projects, Vector uses the Eclipse IDE as the basis for other Java-based tools. Eclipse is an open-source programming tool for developing software of various kinds. Originally, Eclipse was used as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Java programming language, but in the meantime, it is also used for many other development tasks due to its extensibility. Learn more about the Eclipse Foundation: www.eclipse.org

About Vector Vector is the leading manufacturer of software tools and embedded components for the development of electronic systems and their networking with many different systems from CAN to Automotive Ethernet. Vector has been a partner of automotive manufacturers and suppliers and related industries since 1988. Vector tools and services provide engineers and software developers with the decisive advantage to make a challenging and highly complex subject area as simple and manageable as possible. Vector employees work on electronic innovations for the automotive industry every day. Worldwide customers in the automotive, commercial vehicles, aerospace, transportation, and control technology industries rely on the solutions and products of the independent Vector Group for the development of technologies for future mobility. Vector worldwide currently employs more than 3,500 people with sales of EUR 1.06 billion in 2022. Vector is headquartered in Germany (Stuttgart) and has subsidiaries in Brazil, China, France, Great Britain, India, Italy, Japan, Austria, Romania, Sweden, South Korea, Spain and the USA. You can find this and other press releases on our website at: www.vector.com/pressreleases Vector press contacts worldwide you will find at: www.vector.com/press Vector is also active in popular social networks: www.vector.com/connect