[ojb-users] Oracle Purchases TopLink, Offers Free Download to Power Java Productivity

[Jerome J. <jer...@ge...>]

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(June 18, 2002) - Oracle has purchased the TopLink family of products,
developed and supported out of WebGain Canada, a division of WebGain Inc. of
Santa Clara, CA. The acquisition includes the TopLink technology, the
TopLink family of products and all TopLink employees (about 90 in all,
including all WebGain Canada staff and some employees in the San Francisco
and Raleigh, NC offices). The deal was final on June 13, 2002.

One of Oracle's key objectives is to provide productive and high performance
solutions to the Java/J2EE Java development community. TopLink products fill
a critical need for storing business objects and components in a relational
database (RDB), while maximizing Java developer productivity. Developers can
expect to save 30-40 percent of project resources using this
Object-Relational mapping software product.

There are 700 licensed TopLink customers, of which 400 were supported by
WebGain. Oracle has assumed all of the WebGain end-user agreements and some
select OEM agreements. A large number of large enterprise customers are
using TopLink products extensively, including BMW, Daimler, BP, etc.

The TopLink product itself is unchanged. As with all Oracle products, it is
available for download, free of charge, on Oracle Technology Network (OTN),
as well as through all of Oracle's normal business channels. It provides a
robust, feature-rich framework that can be re-used on multiple projects.
TopLink is in production worldwide in industries such as aerospace,
automotive, banking, e-commerce, health care, insurance, manufacturing,
pharmaceutical, system integration, and transportation logistics.

In an enterprise Java environment, one of the most formidable challenges is
storing business objects and components in a relational database (RDB).
TopLink makes application development more productive by offering an easy to
use mapping workbench that maps the Java objects to relational databases and
by simplifying one of the most difficult aspects of developing applications:
persisting information to the database. Using TopLink, developers gain the
flexibility to map objects and EJBs to a relational database schema with
minimal impact on ideal application design or database integrity. As a
result, developers can focus on addressing business needs rather than
building infrastructure. TopLink is built on Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) and is portable across any JDBC-compliant database, including
Oracle's Database, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, and Access.

For more information, see Oracle's Web site, www.oracle.com.


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