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News BEA Systems founder Bill Coleman is stepping down as CEO to become chief strategy officer of the software company. BEA is named after its three founders, Bill, Ed and Alfred. Coleman's new role will see him oversee customer and employee... [03 Oct 2001]
Baltimore embraces Websphere
News IBM closes in on BEA http://www.silicon.com/a46919 Troubled Irish security vendor Baltimore Technologies has ported its access and authentication software to IBM's Websphere ebusiness platform. IBM's increasingly popular Websphere application... [25 Sep 2001]
US crisis update: Compaq staffer joins list of attack victims
News Employees from Compaq, 3Com, BEA Systems and Oracle were among the victims of Tuesday's plane crashes in the US. BEA Systems has confirmed that one of its engineers, Ed Felt, was a passenger on flight 93, which hit the Pentagon. [14 Sep 2001]
IBM closes in on BEA
News A quarter of the 57 companies surveyed said they planned to standardise applications on IBM's websphere platform, while just five per cent opted for BEA's weblogic platform. However, in a retort to the Gartner report, posted on Oracle's website... [29 Aug 2001]
Stockwatch Daily: A bad week for Nasdaq
News However, the software sector was a notable gainer with BEA nudging up 2.2 per cent and PeopleSoft gaining three per cent. News of job cuts by network management company Riversoft left the company's share price unchanged during early trading. [10 Aug 2001]
Oracle ships-out mobile ebusiness suite
News It is also up against IBM and BEA within its underlying technology platform area. The company claims the suite is the final component of Oracle's strategy to offer mobile access throughout its integrated set of technology and applications services. [08 Aug 2001]
I just called to say it's raining: weather reports by SMS
News The WeatherAlert service is based on LT Mobile's location tracking system, which relies on the US software company BEA's middleware technology. FMI will provide meteorological information for LT Mobile's WeatherAlert service which warns users of... [06 Aug 2001]
Developer portals: Life just got a little easier
Comment He counts BEA, IBM, Borland, Iona and Sun among the big players. The most prominent include Microsoft's COM (component object model), Sun's Java and Corba (common object request broker architecture) from the industry consortium Object Management... [24 Jul 2001]
Intel and BEA set to eclipse Sun
News While most development work for BEA applications is undertaken on Intel platforms, most implementations are currently based on powerful Sun workstations, but Sun also sells application server products that directly rival BEA's offering. [23 Jul 2001]
Oracle full of beans over app server launch
News However, analysts claim Oracle's move is unlikely to prove enough to win it market share from run-away industry leader BEA. He also dismissed BEA's technology as a "niche product, that only does one thing". [04 Jun 2001]
Why software giants are hooked on middleware glue
Comment Oracle is pushing to take market share from BEA. At the same time BEA is more interested in trying to maintain a lead over IBM. All of these are keen to see that Microsoft's proprietary system doesn't gain a strong foothold. [04 Jun 2001]
Skills crisis over - at least in Silicon Valley
Comment Application server company BEA says much the same (and it is even recruiting - well, if you believe its hype). Given his company just laid off 20 per cent, he's probably not going to be looking too hard. [30 Apr 2001]
BEA left languishing after iPlanet mix up
News BEA's stock fell 23 per cent on Tuesday and Wednesday, following reports that iPlanet - its main rival - is trying to drive the company out of business. In its daily briefing note to technology shareholders CSFB stated: "While the knee-jerk... [30 Mar 2001]
IBM rubbishes rivals in $200m ad campaign
News IBM will also compare Lotus to Microsoft Exchange, WebSphere to BEA WebLogic and Tivoli to CA Unicenter TNG. The campaign, to be launched on Monday, will push the relative merits of its products and IBM has taken the stance that if that means... [16 Mar 2001]
BEA and BroadVision unite for ebusiness solutions
News Together, the two firms will supply next-generation ebusiness solutions that will combine Java-based application servers from BEA with BroadVisions' ebusiness software applications. Bill Coleman, CEO of BEA Systems, said in a statement... [16 Nov 2000]
