BEA Systems

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BEA Systems, Inc. <tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center; padding:16px 0 16px 0;">Image:Bea logo.png</td></tr>
Type	Public (NASDAQ: BEAS)
Founded	1995
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA <tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Key people</th><td>Alfred Chuang, Founder, Chairman & CEO Mark Dentinger, EVP & CFO Tom Ashburn, President, Worldwide Field Organization Marge Breya, 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</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Products</th><td>Tuxedo, WebLogic, AquaLogic</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Revenue</th><td>Image:Green Arrow Up.svg$1.2 billion USD (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Net income</th><td>Image:Green Arrow Up.svg$142.7 million USD (2005)</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Employees</th><td>3,878</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Slogan</th><td>"Think liquid."</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:right; padding-right:0.75em;">Website</th><td>www.bea.com</td></tr>

BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a company founded in 1995 that specializes in enterprise infrastructure software, and has 77 offices in 37 countries.

[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 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.

On 3 November 2005 BEA Systems announced the acquisition of the SolarMetric company, 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] 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 that includes WebLogic SIP Server and WebLogic Network Gatekeeper.