BEA announced the availability of BEA WebLogic Portal 10.2. This new release solidifies the mission- critical enterprise portal capabilities and introduces enhancements designed to build more dynamic and interactive experiences. Numerous improvements are focused on developer and end-us...

'BEA established itself as the enterprise Java leader in being the first major vendor to market with Java EE 5, and we're doing it again for application composition with Service Component Architecture,' said Guy Churchward, BEA's vice president of WebLogic products and a past speaker a...

SOA and Virtualization has existed, in various forms, and have been adopted with varying degrees of success within the modern enterprise. SOA especially has reached the point where it generally is considered to be a good idea! As a result of the wide adoption applications, services and...

Former CA CEO Sanjay Kumar, 45, started his 12-year prison sentence Tuesday at a minimum-security federal pen in Fairton, New Jersey. Sentenced in November he's been out this long selling off personal possessions to pay a $52 million installment on the $798 million in stockholder resti...

Renewed - or maybe the word is just louder since it's been pretty constant - speculation that BEA is up for grabs has Credit Suisse, for one, believing that the company is in play and that it could go for $15-$18 a share. It says, 'While management may still be hesitant about selling t...

'With the Server Core installation option, IT professionals can install Windows Server 2008 with minimal server functionality for select roles including DHCP, DNS, file server, virtualization, domain controller and now IIS7 without any non-essential services and applications. By only i...

A significant benefit of BEA's approach is that, unlike competitors with standalone CEP engines, WebLogic Event Server is a lightweight but full- featured application server platform with event features built in, enabling customers to build their applications on the platform without ha...

'In the first quarter, we saw a tough selling environment in the Americas, and we made several changes to the Americas field organization. We aligned the organization correctly for the SOA opportunity; however, the changes impacted us in the short-run beyond our expectations. Geographi...

Guy Churchward, BEA vice president of WebLogic products, participaed as a keynote speaker at the JavaOne 2007 in San Francisco. He and Intel's corporate vice president, Renee James, co-presented a keynote session that highlighted both companies' contributions to Java and how each compa...

Connect these dots. Jim Cramer calls for the head of IBM CEO Sam Palmisano because of the company's stuck-in-a-rut stock price. The Wall Street Journal runs a profile, complete with sketch, of IBM software boss Steve Mills, the man now making the lion's share (40%) of IBM's pre-tax pro...

Further extending its leadership role in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced its ground-breaking entry into the virtualization market accompanied with an aggressive strategy and product roadmap, ...

A version of Web Logic Server that includes Liquid VM - a BEA-specific JVM - is on its way in the first half of 2007, says Guy Churchward, vice president and general manager of the Java Runtime Products Group at BEA.

As some of you have seen from the trade press, WLS 10 has passed the EE5 tests. This was an extremely difficult run, as Sun added an enormous number of new tests. You can try out the new Tech Preview.

As part of this new release, the Cross-Virtualization Manager (XVM) module of Cassatt Collage becomes the first product to simultaneously support the automated management of VMware ESX 3.0, Xen 3.0, and XenSource XenEnterprise 3.0 virtual machines. In addition, Cassatt Collage 4.0 uses...

BEA Systems, Inc. , a world leader in enterprise and communications infrastructure software, and BroadSoft, Inc., a leading provider of VoIP application software, today announced a broad-ranging strategic alliance. This alliance includes joint development, sales, and marketing of solut...

'Service-Oriented Architecture for Executives,' the first BEA suite of SOA Services for senior IT executives, is launching this week - the only set of professional services built for executives from the ground up and based on BEA's experience with SOA at Global 2400 companies.

'There is no question that a repository is a key enabler for SOA, and the Flashline repository will serve as the basis for providing a more unified environment for SOA,' said Rob Levy, executive vice president and chief technology officer, BEA Systems, as BEA announced yesterday that i...

'Customers tell us that they are increasingly realizing the value and critical role our application infrastructure products play in transforming their businesses,' explained BEA's senior vice president and CMO, Marge Breya, as it was announced that BEA was positioned in the leaders qua...

'Quest is proud to have the opportunity to build on the company's long and successful infrastructure management history with the Army,' said Paul Garver, vice president of Quest Software Public Sector, as Quest Software Inc. this week announced that the company has been selected to pro...

'The BEA WebLogic product family continues to lead the market with excellent growth and innovation in the market,' said Wai Wong, executive vice president, BEA Systems, Inc. 'The new releases of WebLogic Portal, WebLogic Server and Workshop for WebLogic are designed to accelerate the s...

'There are some important improvements to infrastructure (with BEA Workshop 3.2),' writes BEA VP Bill Roth in a recent blog entry. 'Libraries for Hibernate, Kodo, Spring and Struts are downloaded on first use. This means that you do not have to agree to licenses for these features unle...

BEA was named a leader in the enterprise service bus (ESB) space. Forrester defines an ESB as 'an intermediary that makes a set of reusable business services widely available.' According to the report, ?the total value of the BEA solution is most compelling when the customer uses multi...

'Customers want a service and support program that can comprehensively address the long-term needs of their organizations,' said Terry Clearkin, senior vice president, Worldwide Support Services,' BEA Systems, Inc. 'By further enhancing the Customer First support policy, we can help ou...

Targeting the need of insurers to integrate legacy systems, implement business process management, orchestrate business services, and monitor business transactions, the two companies have agreed to jointly deliver proven SOA solutions tailored specifically for the insurance industry. S...

BEA Systems and Interface21 announced that that two companies are collaborating to provide increased support for the recently approved Java Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) standard. As part of this announcement, the companies have released an open source project that is designed to pr...

The Adobe LiveCycle server platform, which runs on BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and JBoss, has been enhanced and ­ beginning September 19, for a subscription fee of US $1495 for one year­ developers can receive access to Adobe LiveCycle software, support for building custom applicatio...

'Developers want the ability to mix-and-match the best components and deployment platforms that give them optimal and unique building blocks to get their jobs done,' said Peter Cooper-Ellis, EVP of BEA, as Covalent Technologies and BEA announced they have entered into a strategic partn...

BEA has announced the availability of BlueDragon, BEA WebLogic Edition. BlueDragon is designed to help enable customers to modernize and extend legacy ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) applications to run on BEA WebLogic Server, thereby allowing companies to reuse existing technology t...

BEA has released the beta version of its WebLogic Platform 9.2, which includes WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal, and BEA Workshop for WebLogic platform.

'Today's marketplace requires that companies improve customer retention and profitability, which means focusing on strategies to increase service effectiveness and lower service costs in their contact centers,' said Marty Robins Vice President, Partner Marketing, BEA Systems. 'Jacada o...

On Februrary 3rd, BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), announced preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter ended January 31, 2006.

The HP/BEA banking solution is designed to simplify application infrastructure throughout the enterprise, while extending the lifetime of IT investments. One customer, Norway's Sparebank, reported a 12-percent increase in customer satisfaction through deployment of technology from the ...

SandCherry has designed its software so that IT organizations can use a single SOA implementation for self-service applications for both Web and voice, and voice self-service includes Interactive Voice Response (IVR), the company says. SandCherry recently leveraged its technology to be...

Along with Auto Tuning WebLogic, Arcturus is taking enterprise application monitoring to the next level. Arcturus AutoPilot using its IntelliCheck technology, not only provides great visibility into J2EE applications running on WebLogic but also proactively detects and warns of conditi...

The Eclipse Foundation will make the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 1.0 release generally available the week of Dec 19th, 2005.

BEA was as excited last week as Sun by the new T1000 and T2000 CoolThreads servers, announced with some splash in New York in an event that stressed Sun's return to focusing on price/performance, with a newly added twist of emphasizing low power consumption and correspondingly lowered ...

Quest Software, a leading provider of application, database and infrastructure management solutions, has announced the general availability of version 6.0 of Quest Spotlight on Active Directory, the latest release of its diagnostic and troubleshooting product for Active Directory that ...

At Microsoft IT Forum, Quest Software has announced version 1.0 of Vintela Systems Monitor, a powerful solution that enables Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to extend to Unix and Linux systems. The new product enables enterprises that are already using MOM 2005 for Windows operation...

Quest Software has announced at the Microsoft global product launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006, that its database management products are ready to support Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

BEA will offer a clipping portlet that is designed for line-of-business users who can now quickly clip and deploy existing web applications within WebLogic Portal, without any additional programming requirements or need for specialized IT staff.