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` BEA Unveils Comprehensive Web Services Strategy and Support For
`Widest Range of Web Services Standards in the Industry
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`Web Services Architecture of BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform Enables Real
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`Business-to-Business Transactions and Collaboration Over the Internet
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` DALLAS, BEA eWORLD 2001 CONFERENCE, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ --
` BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), one of the world's leading e-business
` infrastructure software companies, today announced its Web Services strategy
` and platform support for Web Services standards. BEA's Web Services software
` allows business functions to be accessed by applications over the Internet
` using Web-standard protocols. Today, BEA delivers a comprehensive Web
` Services architecture based on the market-leading BEA WebLogic(R) E-Business
` Platform that enables direct business to business integration and
` collaboration.
` "Web Services will be as fundamental to e-business as the Web itself,
` "said Bill Coleman, BEA co-founder, chairman and CEO. "E-businesses must
` continue to specialize themselves, focusing on their core value-add, and as a
` result must grow increasingly interdependent on other e-businesses that offer
` complementary value. To date, the Web has mainly been about human users and
` Web browsers, but Web Services will extend the Web platform with standards
` that enable business applications to directly and automatically interact with
` other business applications across the Internet. BEA's rich Web Services
` offering is delivering on this promise -- from simple Web Services problems
` like getting quotes, checking inventories, and placing orders, to highly
` complex challenges like using Internet collaboration to create multi-vendor
` products."
` Based on BEA products that are available today, the BEA Web Services
` architecture empowers companies to leverage their existing investments in
` Java, J2EE and e-business infrastructure. BEA's Web Services architecture
` extends the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) with current and planned
` support for the widest range of emerging Web Services standards, including
` Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language
` (WSDL), Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI), Business
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` Transaction Protocol (BTP), and electronic business eXtensible Markup Language
` (ebXML). As an active member in the standards bodies defining Web Services
` standards, and by taking the lead in inaugurating the Business Transaction
` Protocol initiative, which has 40 member companies including HP, IBM, and
` Microsoft, BEA has taken a leadership position in developing and supporting
` Web Services.
` "Web Services architecture is a component model for B2B. Like any
` component model, its deployment requires a run-time infrastructure platform
` and development tools," said Yefim Natis, vice president and research director
` of Gartner Group, Inc. "The quality of service offered by a Web Services
` provider platform will depend on the maturity, scalability and integrity of
` the underlying platform as much as on the maturity and functional richness of
` the Web Services standards and protocols. The software infrastructure vendors
` with established enterprise credibility will have a strong advantage in the
` Web Services Architecture business."
` "Web Services is a natural extension to the WebLogic application server,"
` said Alfred Chuang, co-founder, president, and COO of BEA Systems, Inc.
` "Precisely the same qualities that have made WebLogic Server the clear
` industry leader also make us the Web Services platform of choice today -- our
` proven large-scale deployments, our rich Java and XML capabilities, our Web
` integration, and our 1,500 value-added channel partners."
` "With its Web Services strategy, BEA is demonstrating the tight linkage
` between the industry standard J2EE platform and next-generation e-business
` systems," said Rich Green, vice president and general manager, Java
` Technologies, Software Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "We will
` continue to enhance J2EE as the foundation platform for building and
` delivering Web Services."
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` About BEA's Web Services Architecture
` BEA provides a complete offering that supports simple, informational Web
` Services, as well as complex, transaction-based Web Services in one integrated
` platform. Key product components of BEA's Web Services architecture include:
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` -- BEA WebLogic Server -- As the market-leading J2EE application server
` and cornerstone of the WebLogic E-Business Platform, BEA WebLogic
` Server hosts and exposes simple, one-call, one-response Web Services.
` BEA WebLogic Server today offers support for the basic protocols and
` standards, such as SOAP, with support planned for emerging standards
` such as UDDI and WSDL.
` -- BEA WebLogic Collaborate -- BEA's open and extensible B2B collaboration
` platform, BEA WebLogic Collaborate, integrates trading partners across
` the Web and enables complex Web Services to be deployed with
` transactional integrity, security, and reliability. BEA WebLogic
` Collaborate extends simple Web Services into sophisticated Business Web
` Services required for complex, B2B commerce and integration.
` -- BEA WebLogic Process Integrator -- As the workflow engine for BEA
` WebLogic Collaborate, BEA WebLogic Process Integrator controls the
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` sequencing of various stages of a Web Service to help execute
` collaborative B2B processes.
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` About BEA
` BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is one of the world's leading e-business
` infrastructure software companies, with more than 9,400 customers around the
` world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its
` WebLogic(R) brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses
` built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) are reliable,
` highly scalable, and poised to bring new services to market quickly. BEA's
` e-business platform is the de facto standard for more than 1,500 systems
` integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service
` providers (ASPs) to provide complete solutions that fast-track and future-
` proof e-businesses for high growth and profitability. Headquartered in
` San Jose, Calif., BEA has 93 offices in 30 countries and is on the Web at
` www.bea.com.
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` BEA and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. The BEA
` WebLogic E-Business Platform, BEA WebLogic Process Integrator, BEA WebLogic
` Collaborate and BEA WebLogic Server are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All
` other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which
` they are associated.
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` Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking,
` including: the statements regarding the importance, impact, benefits and
` features of Web Services, the statements regarding how Web Services and
` related solutions will be differentiated and the statements regarding planned
` support for Web Services standards. Actual results could differ materially
` from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. Risks and
` uncertainties BEA faces that could cause results to differ materially include
` risks associated with: the adverse effect on the rate of adoption of the use
` of Web Services that could result from an economic slow down, or the downturn
` certain sectors of the e-business industry (such as Internet retailers); the
` adverse impact that mixed Web Services standards could have on the adoption
` and functionality of Web Services; changes in Web Services standards that
` could impact our product plans; the introduction by competitors of new or
` improved products; and any technological changes in the market for e-business
` infrastructure solutions which could render our solutions less competitive.
` Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth under the heading
` "Factors that May Impact Future Operating Results" and elsewhere in BEA's 10-Q
` for the quarter ended October 31, 2000 as filed with the SEC and subsequent
` reports filed thereafter from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking
` statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA
` does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why
` actual results could differ materially from those projected in such
` statements.
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