BEA Systems

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Not to be confused with BAE Systems, the defense contractor.

BEA Systems (NASDAQ: [BEAS]) is a company founded in 1995 that specializes in enterprise infrastructure software, and has 77 offices in 37 countries. The products they are best known for in the computer industry are WebLogic Server, WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Portal, JRockit, and Tuxedo. In 2005, BEA launched a new product family called AquaLogic for service-oriented architecture deployment. They have also entered the telecommunications field with their WebLogic Communications Platform that includes WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.

History

The company's name comes from the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang, all of whom were former employees of Sun Microsystems. They launched their business in 1995 by acquiring two existing companies, Information Management and Independence Technologies. These two firms were the largest resellers of Tuxedo, a distributed transaction management system then sold by Novell. They soon acquired the Tuxedo product itself. BEA went on to acquire other middleware companies and products, including ObjectBroker and NCR's Top End product.

In 1998, BEA acquired the San Francisco start-up WebLogic, who were amongst the first to implement Sun Microsystems' J2EE specification. WebLogic's re-branded server formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today.

External links

[BEA Systems website]
[Logical progression], a company profile at Computer Business Review online

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