BEA Systems
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| BEA Systems, Inc. | |
| Type | Public (NASDAQ: BEAS) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, USA |
| Key people | Alfred Chuang, Founder, Chairman & CEO Mark Dentinger, EVP & CFO Tom Ashburn, President, Worldwide Field Organization Rosanne Saccone, SVP & CMO Bill Klein, EVP, Business Planning and Development Wai Wong, EVP, Products Bruce Pasternack, Board of Directors Rob Levy, CTO Jeanne Wu, SVP, Human Resources |
| Products | Tuxedo, WebLogic, AquaLogic |
| Revenue |  $1.4 billion USD (2006) |
| Net income | $142.7 million USD (2005) |
| Employees | 3,878 |
| Slogan | "Think liquid." |
| Website | www.bea.com |
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company founded in 1995 that specializes in enterprise infrastructure software, and has 77 offices in 37 countries.
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[edit] 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 former employees of Sun Microsystems. They launched the business in 1995 by acquiring Information Management and Independence Technologies. These firms were the largest resellers of Tuxedo, a distributed transaction management system 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, which was among the first to implement Sun Microsystems' J2EE specification. WebLogic's re-branded server formed the basis of BEA's WebLogic application server sold today.
On November 3, 2005 BEA Systems announced the acquisition of SolarMetric, editors of the Kodo persistence engine. The acquisitions continued in 2006 with Fuego, a business process management (BPM) software company, and Flashline, a metadata repository company.
[edit] Financial Results
On the 22 February 2007 BEA Systems closed out its fiscal year with $1.4bn in revenues, 17% higher than the previous year. And it came out of the year with $1.2bn in cash, retiring over $250m in convertible debt.
[edit] Products
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, which includes WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.
[edit] External links
- BEA Systems - World Website
- BEA Systems - Europeen Website
- BEA Systems - French Website
- Logical progression, insight into BEA Systems at CBRonline.com (2001)
