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

[Jason M. <mc...@na...>]

One note on this:

It is likely that, as with all of Oracle's products, it is only
available for _download_ free of charge.  You can test with it, develop
with it, etc.  However, you have to fork up the cash when you want to go
to production run time.  So the article is a little misleading.

This is how it works with Oracle 9i JDeveloper, 9ias, and the databases.

Personally, I've always liked the way Oracle does this from a developer
standpoint as it lets me play with their toys and learn them.  

-Newt


On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 09:16, Jerome Jacobsen wrote:
> Saw this news item and thought it would be of interest here.
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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.
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> For more information, see Oracle's Web site, www.oracle.com.
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