IBM wants to encourage more of its business partners to <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=28661">use its open-source, low-end application server</A> and its free entry-level database by giving those companies access to IBM sales, marketing and technical expertise at no charge. Partners who use IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition or the vendor's DB2 Express-C database will be able to directly tap IBM staff for advice on integration, scalability, testing and support issues and won't have to pay for the privilege, IBM said Wednesday.