WebGain Closure: The Aftermath

TogetherSoft plans to buy WebGain Studio,which includes the VisualCafe IDE as well as the StructureBuilder, Business Designer and Quality Analyzer tools,and take over support of WebGain Studio customers, said Keith Boswell, vice president of marketing and business development at the Raleigh, N.C.-based software development vendor.

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Keith Boswell: TogetherSoft will take over support of WebGain Studio customers.

San Jose-based BEA and Borland, Scotts Valley, Calif., jointly unveiled JBuilder WebLogic Edition, slated to ship next month for $3,500 per developer seat. The tool,an option to WebGain Studio, a leading IDE for BEA's WebLogic product line,integrates Borland's JBuilder Java IDE and BEA's WebLogic Enterprise Platform 7.0, which includes BEA's app server, portal, integration server and WebLogic Workshop tool.

WebGain was launched in March 2000 as a joint venture of BEA and investment firm Warburg Pincus. BEA's first move was to buy Symantec's VisualCafe development tool, which became a component of WebGain Studio. But developer support for WebGain Studio weakened when WebGain reportedly shut its main office and cut most of its staff last month without making an official announcement.

Mike DeBellis, principal and e-business CTO at Deloitte Consulting, New York, said his team had worked primarily with WebGain Studio on BEA WebLogic projects but began migrating to other Java IDEs when rumors of WebGain's demise surfaced.

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Curt Stevenson, founder and vice president of business development at Back Bay Technologies, a Boston-based solution provider, said he thinks WebGain products will eventually go the way of the dinosaur. "I expect they will fade out, with all the alternatives out there," Stevenson said. "Why would you go out and invest in [WebGain?"