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Oracle is making the whole of its TopLink Java persistence framework freely available as part of the vendor's increased involvement in the open-source development tools Eclipse Foundation community, the company announced Tuesday.

Will the software salesperson role become extinct? This possibility was raised during a panel session at the Open Source Business Conference.

The Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors next week will formally name former Oracle executive Mike Milinkovich as executive director of the open source tools foundation.

Oracle Corp. is in talks to buy all or part of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s (HP) middleware product portfolio, Oracle Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison confirmed Wednesday.

Sun Microsystems will give away a basic version of its Sun ONE Application Server, the company said Wednesday, part of an effort to broaden the customer base for its middleware products beyond companies running its own Solaris operating system.

Microsoft plans to use its 10th annual TechEd developer conference this week in New Orleans to advance its cause in the battle pitting the software behemoth against Sun Microsystems and its partners over Web services.

Sun Microsystems Inc. Monday brought its Java enterprise server platform up to speed with emerging Web services standards, releasing a set of extensions that allow developers to build and run XML (Extensible Markup Language) applications on the Java platform.

Java developers are not without their tools. That is clear with the outpouring of announcements to come from software development tool vendors at this year's JavaOne conference in San francisco, which continues until Friday with more spotlights on the popular coding community.

IPlanet E-Commerce Solutions on Tuesday announced a set of developer tools and resources that it claims will reduce development cycles and deployment of J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) applications.