visual café was spun off by symantec, being purchased by bea systems and sold as the development environment to an early weblogic server. the freeware tools environment (eclipse) limited the commercial viability of the development tool market, and visual cafe' became the flagship product of a new bea spinoff company focused on development tools called webgain. webgain acquired several other technologies, including toplink, before ceasing operations in 2002. while toplink found a home at oracle, visual café is no longer commercially available.