When BEA continued in September its support of 'blended' applications development - i.e., letting BEA customers work with both open-source and commercial components - by buying Eclipse-based development tools maker M7, it acquired an IDE called NitroX.

Introscope has been implemented to deliver real-time application monitoring and analysis so any degradation in application performance can be quickly identified and resolved to avoid losses of revenue and service. BA.com uses BEA's WebLogic platform to support its...

Objectivity/DB 9.1 enhances the connectivity of the product with support for IBM WebSphere and improves the performance of its object-relational SQL++ product.

BEA Systems has unveiled BEA WebLogic SIP Server 2.1, the industry's first standards-based, carrier-grade, integrated J2EE and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) application server providing support for IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), clustering-based high availabil...

Covalent Technologies announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with BEA. As a part of a blended approach to mixing and matching open source and commercial software, BEA plans to offer blended BEA WebLogic management and deployment technologies. The ...

SBAB has selected BEA to build a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This leading Swedish mortgage provider is launching a program to automate the processes used to manage relationships with its 250,000 customers.

Wily Technology, the leader in Enterprise Application Management, announced Wily 6, the latest generation of the most advanced solution for monitoring and improving the availability and performance of business-critical web applications.

BEA Chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang characterizes the company's ConnecTerra acquisition as a logical development in a market in which many customers already use the respective companies' technologies in unison to solve business problems. With the acquisition, BEA ...

BEA has announced the acquisition of ConnecTerra, a privately-held pioneer in RFID middleware technology based in Cambridge, Mass. The acquisition is designed to immediately extend the range of the BEA infrastructure portfolio to easily integrate Radio Frequency...

BEA Systems announced it plans to ship an application server capable of delivering predictable real-time application responses to enterprise applications. The new product, BEA WebLogic Real Time Edition, will be available in Q4 2005.

BEA opened its annual user conference, held this year in Santa Clara, CA, with numerous announcements about specific products, its SOA strategy, and activity by key technology and marketing partners.

RoboSuite 6.0 has the necessary functionality required to successfully deliver an application and content-rich enterprise portal, according to Kapow Technologies. The product is also the Web Integration platform for consuming and producing web services, which pr...

Valaran Corporation has appointed Rhonda Hocker, senior vice president and chief information officer of BEA, as Non-Executive Chairman of its board of directors. Hocker begins her non-executive chairman role after having served as a director with the company since August 2004.

StrongMail Systems has appointed as CTO industry veteran Peter Zadrozny, who has deep roots in enterprise software and is an expert on SOA, as well as being the founding editor of WLDJ. Zadrozny joins StrongMail Systems from Oracle, where he was VP and chief evang...

BEA Systems yesterday named John P. Giubileo as senior vice president, products operations, and Annie Shum, Ph.D., as vice president, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy.

Valaran Corporation, provider of a service-oriented platform for distributing and executing business logic on or near highly distributed edge devices, today announced that it has joined the growing list of companies in BEA Systems' Partner Program.

FullTilt Solutions, a leading provider of Enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) software solutions, today announced that it has joined the growing list of companies in the BEA Systems Partner Program.

'BEA and Wily have an extensive, successful history of working together to deliver solutions that are designed to help drive and protect the performance of our customers' business,' said Larry Dino, Engineering Director at BEA Systems, Inc. 'Introscope is one of...

'The combination makes BEA the number one multi-platform portal supplier in the world,' said BEA CEO Alfred Chuang. 'As I said in our earnings call last week, the portal is becoming the point of integration in the enterprise, and the portal is being used for dashb...

Java and non-Java application development will be featured in separate tracks at the upcoming BEA World 2005 in Santa Clara, CA. The JRockit track will be integrated into the event's overall WebLogic sessions.

BEA has now completed its acquisition of Compoze Software, Inc., a privately held company based in Wayne, PA.

webMethods debuted webMethods for Compliance, a new solution designed to verify the completeness, accuracy and validity of transactions and business processes in accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulatory requirements.

If one of the true signs of a vibrant developer community is an active blogosphere surrounding a technology, then the WebLogic family of technologies certainly passes that test with flying colors. In case you're not yet active yourself, WLDJ brings you a comprehen...

Following the recent announcement of BEA AquaLogic, a new family of products to help address the emerging Service Infrastructure software category, BEA Systems, Inc. , today named Rob Levy, 45, executive vice president, new products strategy. Levy is responsible f...

BEA has unveiled a new brand identity, corporate tagline and marketing campaign designed to raise the company's profile and to communicate its value proposition to IT customers. Its new tagline is 'Think Liquid' - coined to reflect BEA goal of being the leading ...

'Many of the world's largest companies are moving down the path to SOA to take advantage of its enormous potential for cost saving and new business opportunities,' said Eric Pulier, SOA Software Inc. Chairman and Founder. 'As these companies move from pilot to pro...

In the first fiscal quarter of 2005, BEA signed more million-dollar license agreements, at a higher average size, than it has ever had before in a first quarter. Total revenues were $281.7 million, up 7% from $262.6 million in last year's first quarter.

RadView's WebLOAD 7.1 has just completed the BEA Validation Program for BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. The BEA Validation Program is open to all partners enrolled in the BEA Partner Program.

RadView Software Ltd. announced that its WebLoad 7.1 has completed the BEA Validation Program for WebLogic Platform 8.1. WebLoad 7.1 evaluates scalability characteristics and derives capacity estimates for applications performing under real-world conditions.

The world's largest manufacturer of printing inks has selected BEA to implement a SOA built on BEA's WebLogic.

BEA and Acucorp agreement is designed to extend legacy applications using a combination of SOA and WebLogic.

BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 has set new performance records, topping previous results in the dual-node performance category using the industry- standard SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark.

BEA is planning new products to let businesspeople modify systems themselves, without having traditionally required coding skills.

Calling the announcement 'a huge milestone not only for BEA, but for the entire Java community as well,' BEA's EVP, Products confirmed yesterday that BEA is joining the Eclipse Foundation as a Strategic Developer and Board Member.

High Performance, one of the fastest-growing enterprise solution providers, has been authorized by BEA to resell its WebLogic Enterprise Platform.

Leading competitive response solutions company, Current Analysis, has appointed 'tier one' status to BEA, one of 16 companies that it looked at for its Enterprise Portal Market Assessment Report.

NetCracker Technology, said NetCracker 6.0 will be available for general release in March. This release is the most comprehensive OSS solution so far.

BEA Systems, a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, has announced the general availability of BEA WebLogic JRockit 5.0 Java Development Kit (JDK). Compatible with the J2SE 5.0 specification, WebLogic JRockit 5.0 is designed to offer-the-highest pe...

BEA's CEO, Alfred Chuang, proclaimed yesterday: 'A new world order is emerging and the whole thing is running on a software platform.' The statement was made as BEA introduced new telecommunications services to help provide customers with a mix of voice, data, and wireless services.

BEA has created a Web-based tool to help companies examine what SOA implementation will offer, when used with existing IT ecosystems.