No comments about buyout, but patrick would be welcome to our team in setting up a data access platform in heterogeneous data stores for soa, data analysis, mining and ofcourse operational usage. Doh! -- BlackBerry® from Mobistar --- -----Original Message----- From: David Jordan Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:37:33 To:JDO Expert Group Cc:jdo-dev@db.apache.org Subject: If Oracle buys BEA... that very likely signals the death of Kodo JDO... and also Oracle Application Server... In my personal view, it would be real nice if Patrick Linskey joined the JPOX team.