-- Company officials said 22 percent of its middleware customers use the software with a non-Oracle database.

-- An Oracle executive reported no change in the company's nonsupport of the NetBeans open source tooling platform championed by Sun Microsystems. Earlier this year, Sun officials cited Oracle's acknowledgment of NetBeans (http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/005050.html) as a victory, but Oracle did not actually commit to using it. That has not changed. "I think if we saw enough market demand that customers who are using our middleware are expressing the desire to use NetBeans, we might take a look at that," said Oracle's Rick Schultz, vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware. "We haven't seen enough market demand."