By Lisa Burroughes, 28 February 2000 12:48
NEWS Middleware vendor, BEA, has announced a raft of Web-enabled products and partnerships in an attempt to reposition itself as an ecommerce software company. At its fifth annual user conference in San Francisco, BEA announced Tuxedo 7.1 - its flagship product with increased XML functionality and end-to-end public key encryption. It also revealed details of its 'Project E-collaborate' - an open business-to-business architecture - which it claims will be cheaper and less complicated to implement than EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). Other products announced included WebLogic Server 2.0, based around Enterprise Java Beans, and an Enterprise Applications Integration adapter for the mainframe based entirely on Java. BEA has formed partnerships with companies such as Bull, HP and NEC to sell these products. Bill Coleman, CEO at BEA, said: "Two years ago BEA was a one-product company on a direct sale model. That product was Tuxedo and was completely enterprise middleware. But now we have built a family of Internet products which will be sold through an indirect channel model." BEA will be employing an additional 400 staff worldwide to support the additional products. It will also add to the product range in spring and summer this year with further Java-enabled versions of WebLogic Server and WebLogic Enterprise. Meanwhile, BEA announced its fourth quarter results today that were up 82 per cent on the same time last year, with revenues rising from $82m to $149.2m and an increase of 18 per cent on the third quarter on this year.
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