Likely announcements

Oracle plans to announce that it is submitting its AJAX rendering kit to the open-source community, most likely to the The Apache Software Foundation, said Ted Farrell, Oracle chief architect and vice president of tools and middleware.

The Eclipse Foundation will unveil a community portal to promote open-source projects and a new project to promote the creation of model-based development tools in the Eclipse Community, said Ian Skerrett, director of marketing for the Ottawa-based open-source community.

Peder Ulander, Sun's vice president of software marketing, declined to provide details of the company's open-source plans for the conference. Other Sun officials, including Joe Keller, vice president of marketing for SOA and integration platforms, earlier this month said that the company would be making open-source announcements at the show.

Michael Goulde, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc., said he expects users to seek out open-source products more often as adoption of the technology expands within corporate development organizations.