BEA Systems (BEAS)

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The biggest losers during the bear market are making the best comebacks. I bought every NASDAQ 100 stock that dropped below $10 and almost all of them have made big gains in Oct and Nov.

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Oh Baby! BEAS T/A CHART.

Possible breakout, but lookout for break-DOWN. A fall to 10.00 will destroy the possibility of a rally. But keep an eye on this one. Could rally to upper teens or maybe 20.

However, wait until this one moves to 12.75 or so until buying.

NOTE: Strong support doubled @ 9.50 (approx.). Place stop order @ 9.00

T/A Tip: Use MACD-Hist & Stochastic together. If both indicators agree with your prediction, then it's much more likely of following through. They work great together on predicting breakouts.

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BEA sets new products to improve software functions

NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Software maker BEA Systems Inc.(NasdaqNM:BEAS - news) next week is expected to announce a new product designed to allow developers to create programs that quickly retrieve specific information from among the mountains of data that companies store on hundreds of different databases.

The new product, called Liquid Data, is one of several new products that BEA is developing to allow applications to manage and correct themselves, improve the information they provide, and make them more secure.

``That's very critical,'' BEA Chief Executive Alfred Chuang recently told investors at Merrill Lynch's annual software and Internet conference held this week.

San Jose, California-based BEA is scheduled to release its third-quarter financial results Tuesday and hold a one-day conference with analysts on Thursday.

On Nov. 1, it warned its quarterly results would not meet the consensus of analysts expectations because of the weakened economy. BEA said it expected earnings, before charges, to be 5 cents or 6 cents a share said it would cut it work force by 9 percent to 10 percent.

Since then, shares of BEA have risen 35 percent, closing Friday at $15.74, up 80 cents, or 5 percent.

BEA is the No. 1 market leader in application servers -- a layer of software which developers use as a foundation for building new programs -- a highly competitive area dominated by BEA and No. 2 International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM - news). In addition, companies such as Sun Microsystems Inc.'s (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) iPlanet, Oracle Corp. (NasdaqNM:ORCL - news) and Iona Technologies Plc (NasdaqNM:IONA - news) have, within the past year, made aggressive moves into the area.

``It's somewhat of a change,'' Prudential analyst John McPeake said, who has a ``hold'' rating on the stock. ``They're under price pressure. They need to add functionality to their suite to hold unit pricing. I don't think its time to think everything's fine for BEA.''

As the complexity of business information has increased, the application server makers have moved to broaden product offerings.

Integration capabilities have now become a nearly standard offering and most offer Web services, a more advanced integration that allows information to be packaged as building blocks that can be used and reused easily by different computer systems.

BEA's products are based on Sun's Java language, which is expected to face greater competition as Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) rolls out its own business application and integration software strategy called .NET.

In addition to Liquid Data, which focuses on the area of ``real time data aggregation technology'' Chuang said BEA is looking to expand into four other major categories:

* Products that ensure the software works properly. If an application fails and the computer screen freezes, the technology will ensure it will resume from where it left off and not lose any data or work.

BEA is working on an agreement with application performance and testing software maker Mercury Interactive to offer the technology that would allow an application to monitor its own performance, Chuang said.

* Products to ensure applications running on any type of device -- a hand-held computer, two-way pager or personal computer -- displays information securely to the correct user.

* Products that keep updating spreadsheets and documents with real-time information, rather than waiting for a user to update it.

* Software that allows a single application to run on any kind of device.

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Software Stocks Rally, See Light at End of Tunnel

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Software stocks rallied during the day on Wednesday as lower interest rates, cautiously positive management statements and user group meetings, melded in the minds of investors beginning to believe the worst may be over, analysts said.

But by the end of the day, the euphoria waned and many double-digit rises closed as modest increases.

The Goldman Sachs software index (GSO.0), which had risen more than 4 percent during the day, closed up 1.06 percent, above the less than marginal rise the overall tech-laden Nasdaq composite recorded for the day.

``Everyone's still talking about activity levels,'' Merrill Lynch software analyst Chris Shilakes said. Merrill is holding a two-day software conference in Monterey, California, where 60 companies were scheduled deliver presentations to investors.

``They're saying the pipeline does seem to have firmed up some,'' Shilakes added. ``That seems to be the consistent message.''

Stocks with the biggest boosts during the past two days were those battered the worst during the past year.

``The whole supply chain sector is up,'' Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Brent Thill said. ``There's a notion the industry is beginning to see the bottom of the trough or probably not any more deep crevices.''

Shares of Commerce One, which held a users meeting in Santa Clara, California Wednesday, gave up most of its gains, and closed up a penny to $3.02 after rising as high as $3.52 during the day. Shares of i2, whose chief executive spoke at the Merrill conference, closed up 27 cents, or 4 percent, to $6.42.

Manugistics rose $1.49, or 16 percent, to $10.56. Ariba Inc. (Nasdaq:ARBA - news) was up 23 cents, or 5 percent, to close at $4.60. PurchasePro closed up 9 cents, or 16 percent, to 66 cents.

``People think they are going to survive, which was not so certain a couple of months ago,'' Goldman Sachs software analyst Thomas Berquist said.

PLAYING CATCH-UP

Most of those stocks once traded above $100 a share and within the past year have lost about 90 percent of their value.

``They're playing some catch-up,'' Bob Austrian, Banc of America Securities analyst, said.

Last week, executives from such companies such as Serena Software Inc.(Nasdaq:SRNA - news) and Manugistics said they were cautiously optimistic that the worst was over. In addition, on Tuesday the U.S. Federal Reserve (news - web sites) cut interest rates a half a point to 2 percent, their lowest level in 40 years. Investors hope that will make it cheaper for businesses to borrow money to buy new technology, such as software, analysts said.

In addition, infrastructure and network software stocks such as BEA Systems Inc.(Nasdaq:BEAS - news), Akamai Technologies Inc (Nasdaq:AKAM - news), SilverStream Software Inc.(Nasdaq:SSSW - news) were swept along in the wave of enthusiasm.

Other makers of applications -- software that performs specific jobs, such as automating selling, content management and analyzing buyer behavior --- also saw their stocks rally.

Siebel Systems Inc.(Nasdaq:SEBL - news) was up 2 percent, or 41 cents to $22.19 Vignette Corp.(Nasdaq:VIGN - news) shares rose about 1 percent, or 4 cents to $5.22 and Brio Software Inc.(Nasdaq:BRIO - news) shares closed up 7 percent or 9 cents, to $1.39.

``The September quarter was the low watermark fundamentally,'' Austrian said. ``We've had a lot of rate cut fiscal stimulus. The applications group was down sharply through September. They've rallied well over the past two days.''

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Answerfriend Extends Relationship With BEA to Provide Intelligent Interaction Solutions Built on BEA

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Answerfriend, a leading provider of software solutions that power Web self-service, today announced that it has extended its relationship with BEA Systems by participating in the new BEA Portal Star Solution, a partner initiative from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news). The BEA Portal Star Solution provides a designation for partners who offer complementary products or services that are tightly integrated with the BEA WebLogic Portal(TM).

Answerfriend, which already powers BEA's highly successful ``AskBEA' Web self-service and support application, will integrate its Intelligent Interaction self-service solutions with BEA WebLogic Portal. With this integration, customers can easily deploy self-service solutions that provide a significantly improved user experience and reduce the cost of customer, partner, and employee support.

``Enterprise portals are an ideal way to address customer and employee self-service needs,' said Pat O'Haren, senior director of product marketing, BEA Systems. ``With the emergence of intelligent interaction tools provided by Answerfriend, BEA WebLogic Portal customers can increase customer response time and accuracy, the two main factors in judging customer satisfaction.'

Answerfriend's Intelligent Interaction software delivers highly accurate and scalable information retrieval, navigation, and analytics portlets that enable companies to dramatically improve communication with all users. Answerfriend provides direct access to any content source, structured or unstructured, giving users specific answers to their questions, instead of just links. Answerfriend also enables users to quickly find the area of a web site necessary to accomplish their objective, whether that objective is finding a product brochure, ordering a product, or registering a warranty. Answerfriend analytics provide companies tremendous insight to customer interests by analyzing questions by product or service line, frequency, and related functional area such as marketing, sales, and support.

``Combining Answerfriend Intelligent Interaction software with BEA WebLogic Portal provides a highly scalable, extremely reliable and cost-effective Web-based self-service solution for any company,' said Mike Murphy, CEO of Answerfriend. ``This combined portal solution helps strengthen a company's self-service processes and user experience, while significantly reducing the total cost of ownership for the technology.'

About Answerfriend

Answerfriend is a leading provider of Intelligent Interaction software for eBusiness platforms. Answerfriend solutions are designed to provide a rapid return on investment by helping enterprises increase customer satisfaction while simultaneously reducing customer service costs. Answerfriend is a privately held company in Los Angeles, CA.

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, and How Business Becomes E-Business are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc.

Contact: Answerfriend, [phone], [e-mail]

SOURCE: Answerfriend

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MRO Software Embeds BEA WebLogic into Industry Leading MAXIMO 5.0 Strategic MRO Solution

Long-Term Agreement Begins Relationship Between MRO Software and BEA Systems

BEDFORD, Mass., and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- MRO Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: MROI - news), the leading provider of solutions for powering industrial collaboration, and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-Business infrastructure software companies, today announced that MRO Software will be embedding BEA WebLogic® into its MAXIMO 5.0 product. This combined solution provides MAXIMO customers improved organizational and operational efficiencies in the Strategic MRO space. BEA's WebLogic core functionality enables the execution, scalability and management of MAXIMO's multi-tiered component based system.

``BEA's WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM), is becoming a primary IT development and deployment platform for our MAXIMO customers,' said Jack Young, executive vice president of products and technology at MRO Software. ``The combination of MAXIMO's pure-Internet architecture and WebLogic's flexibility provides customers with the benefits of lower cost of ownership, advanced enterprise deployment and a high degree of scalability.'

Using Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology and a Java-based component architecture, MAXIMO 5.0 is the first strategic MRO solution to be based on a pure-Internet architecture.

``BEA and MRO Software have similar visions for the next generation of enterprise application deployment. We both agree that a true Web-architected product based on open industry standards offers the best possible platform for scalable, reliable and flexible applications,' said Rauline Ochs, vice president of worldwide partner initiatives for BEA. ``Leading ISVs like MRO Software that embed WebLogic into their applications give their customers a solid foundation for e-Business based on the industry's leading application server.'

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com .

About MRO Software

MRO Software, Inc. is the leading provider of solutions for powering industrial collaboration. As a worldwide leader in enterprise asset maintenance, MRO Software has the technology and in-depth understanding of issues confronting capital asset-intensive industries to connect all participants in the industrial value chain. The Company's solutions help make e-Business easy, practical and affordable.

The Company's Strategic MRO, Online Commerce Services, and Enterprise Catalog Management solutions are helping customers streamline their internal processes and compete more efficiently in an increasingly collaborative and electronic market. MAXIMO®, the Company's flagship Strategic MRO solution, is creating value in more than 8,000 organizations by extending asset life, decreasing operating costs and enabling efficient supplier collaboration.

MRO Software (Nasdaq: MROI - news) is a global company based in Bedford, Mass., with more than 1,000 employees. The Company markets its products through a direct sales force in combination with a network of international distributors. MRO Software has sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. Additional information on MRO Software can be found at http://www.mro.com .

MAXIMO® is a registered trademark, and MRO Software(TM) is a trademark, of MRO Software, Inc.

SOURCE: MRO Software, Inc.

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BEA Systems Signs on as Platinum Sponsor of Sun Microsystems' Tech Days

Sun Global Alliance Partner BEA Commits to Global Support of Premier Web Developer Training Event

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced that it is a Platinum Sponsor for Sun(TM) Tech Days 2001-2002, a two-day training program for Web developers that will be presented in eight countries around the world. BEA, which was recently named a Sun Global Alliance Partner, will present a keynote address and host a training session on working with the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) at each of the eight Tech Days events.

The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform is the world's #1 e-business software platform, providing a single infrastructure solution with complete application management, portal, integration and Web Services capabilities. BEA is one of two Platinum Sponsors for Sun Tech Days, which are designed to train software developers to use Java architecture and Sun software tools for creating innovative Web Services.

``We're pleased to work with Sun's world-renowned technology evangelists to help educate the Sun and BEA developer communities on the latest technologies and standards,' said Rauline Ochs, vice president of worldwide partner initiatives at BEA Systems. ``As members of Sun Microsystems' most exclusive partnering group, BEA will continue to work closely with Sun to further define industry standards for Web development. Our strategic alliance, and programs such as Sun Tech Days, enable software developers around the globe to quickly benefit from our tightly integrated technologies.'

Sun Tech Days will be held throughout the end of 2001 and into spring 2002. The schedule includes programs in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 29-30, 2001; Madrid, Spain, Nov. 13-14, 2001; Washington, D.C., Feb. 11-12, 2002; Tokyo, Japan, March 13-15, 2002; Shanghai, China, March 19-20, 2002; New Delhi, India, May 2-3, 2002; Singapore, May 6-7, 2002; and Stockholm, Sweden, at a future date.

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic M-Commerce Solution, and BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

SOURCE: BEA Systems, Inc.

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Tivoli Policy Director From IBM Provides Secure Access Management Across Business Ecosystem Applications

Support For WebSphere, SAP, Plumtree, BroadVision And BEA Software Enables Comprehensive Security Policy Management

AUSTIN, TX--(INTERNET WIRE)--Oct 24, 2001-- IBM today unveiled enhanced Tivoli software that enables organizations to secure access and manage security policies across a broader range of business ecosystem applications.
Out-of-the-box support for WebSphere, SAP, Plumtree, BroadVision and BEA software is offered in the latest version of Tivoli Policy Director, offering traditional enterprises and e-businesses secure, personalized portal, customer relationship management and other e-business solutions that extend across the business ecosystem to customers, suppliers, partners and employees.

Tivoli Policy Director is the standards-based secure access management software that allows organizations to control wired and wireless access to business ecosystem applications, letting the right people in, while keeping unauthorized people out.

Business ecosystems may assume the form of business portals, business-to-business exchanges, peer-to-peer business models, private, public or vertical industry e-Markets, procurement systems, corporate or consumer portals, customer relationship management (CRM) systems and other extended business applications.

"Security should not hold organizations back from realizing the promise of a connected e-business--where customers, suppliers, partners and employees have access to their applications through desktops, Web browsers or wireless devices," said Arvind Krishna, vice president of security products, Tivoli Software, IBM Software Group. "With Tivoli Policy Director organizations can extend their secure e-business as their customer, partner and employee base increases."

Tivoli Policy Director now includes Web single sign-on and authorization functionality for leading portal and CRM applications such as BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise(TM), the Plumtree Corporate Portal, the IBM WebSphere Portal Family and mySAP.com(R). Additionally, Tivoli Policy Director supports Java applications built on both IBM WebSphere Application Server and BEA WebLogic(R).

Tivoli Policy Director is also helping organizations secure other parts of their business ecosystem by supporting public key infrastructure solutions from Baltimore Technologies and Entrust, Inc., as well as popular wireless protocols such as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and i-mode.

Pricing and Availability

Tivoli Policy Director 3.8 is currently available worldwide. Pricing is based on the number of users and the volume of licenses purchased. Support for the products listed above is included.

Tivoli Policy Director 3.8 is available in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish.

About Tivoli Software from IBM

Tivoli software from IBM enables an IT organization to reduce the total cost of ownership and improve service levels of the IT infrastructure. Tivoli systems management software helps traditional enterprises and e-businesses worldwide manage security, storage, performance and availability, and configuration and operations. Backed by world-class IBM services, support and research, Tivoli software is one of four key IBM Software Group brands -- DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and WebSphere. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.

IBM, Tivoli, and Tivoli Ready are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation or Tivoli Systems Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both. Other company, product, and service names may be the trademarks or service marks of others.

Note to Editors: For the latest Tivoli software news and event information, visit our online pressroom at www.tivoli.com/news.

Comments Swaison, general manager, WebSphere Software, IBM Software Group

"Tivoli Policy Director offers the most comprehensive authorization and single-sign-on solution for both WebSphere Application Server and the WebSphere Portal Family. Tivoli and WebSphere developers have worked together this year and delivered the first seamlessly integrated secure access management solution that requires no additional security J2EE coding to build security into business ecosystem applications."

Media contact: Tim Breuer, 914-766-1711, [e-mail]

Hilary Jones, director of alliances, Plumtree

"Tivoli Policy Director can manage access to all the enterprise applications integrated via Gadget Web Services in Plumtree's personalized and community portal pages, offering joint customers a comprehensive single sign-on solution via the portal. This new supportis more convenient for portal users and more secure for administrators, and it helps reduce deployment efforts and costs for our mutual customers."

Media contact: Laura Nusbaum, 415-399-2545, [e-mail]

Raj Rao, senior vice president of product strategy, BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN - news)

"BroadVision customers can now effectively manage security policy across their self-service e-business applications using this new support in Tivoli Policy Director software. Having a consistent security policy across personalized applications is key to building trust across your employee, customer and partner base."

Media contact: Janine Kromhout, 650-261-5940, [e-mail]

John Kiger, director of marketing, E-Commerce Server Division, BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS - news)

"BEA and Tivoli are working together to offer customers comprehensive security policy enforcement for enterprise e-business applications. With Tivoli Policy Director, organizations can manage access to applications and resources deployed on the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, providing the highest level of security across the business ecosystem."

Media contact: Mary Erickson, 605-325-3286, [e-mail]



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BEA Systems and Mercury Interactive Strengthen Strategic Relationship to Accelerate E-business Success

BEA Adopts Mercury Interactive Solutions to Ensure BEA WebLogic Applications Operate at Peak Performance

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Mercury Interactive Corporation (Nasdaq: MERQ - news), the leader in enterprise testing and application performance management solutions, and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced an expanded strategic relationship, under which Mercury Interactive has optimized its testing solutions for BEA WebLogic®. By using these solutions, organizations can accelerate BEA WebLogic implementations, identify end-user performance and availability issues, and maximize application performance, often without investing in additional infrastructure. Under the agreement, BEA is using Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner®, TestDirector®, and WinRunner® solutions for quality assurance testing, internal performance testing and benchmarking of BEA WebLogic products to ensure performance, reliability and a positive user experience.

``BEA and Mercury Interactive have worked closely together to develop tightly integrated testing solutions to tune and optimize application infrastructures based on BEA WebLogic,'' said Scott Dietzen, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, Inc. ``The integration of industry leading solutions from BEA and Mercury Interactive enables customers to use the leading enterprise testing and application performance management solutions to optimize solutions built on the world's number one Java application server.''

``In a world where reliable e-business applications have become mission-critical production systems, BEA is demonstrating its commitment to deliver a bullet-proof platform to its customers,'' said Vincent Rerolle, vice president of business development at Mercury Interactive. ``BEA and Mercury Interactive have a long history of working closely together to develop tightly integrated testing solutions to facilitate tuning and optimization of application infrastructures based on BEA WebLogic. We are pleased to strengthen our relationship and expand on joint sales and marketing efforts to deliver combined solutions to our customers.''

Mercury Interactive and BEA have worked together for more than five years. During that time, Mercury Interactive has developed a suite of solutions designed specifically for testing and managing the performance of BEA WebLogic applications, including TestDirector, QuickTest(TM) Professional, WinRunner and LoadRunner for BEA WebLogic and Topaz(TM) for BEA WebLogic.

BEA uses Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner to predict system behavior and performance of its BEA WebLogic software under the stress of a heavy user load. LoadRunner can emulate thousands of users to identify and isolate system problems. BEA uses Mercury Interactive's TestDirector, a test management tool that enables coordination of the testing effort, from planning through execution to organize and manage the entire testing process. BEA also uses WinRunner, a functional testing tool that verifies that e-marketplace services work as expected. WinRunner identifies defects and ensures that business processes, which can span across multiple applications and databases, bring about expected results.

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

About Mercury Interactive Corporation

Founded in 1989, Mercury Interactive is the leading provider of enterprise testing and performance management solutions. The company's automated software and managed services help companies deliver and maintain high-performance applications. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive solutions across their application and technology infrastructures to minimize hardware and operational expenses, protect revenue streams and enhance their competitive positions.

Mercury Interactive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in more than 20 countries. Further information is available at www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at U.S. [phone]. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol MERQ.

NOTE: BEA, and WebLogic are trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server and BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

LoadRunner, QuickTest Professional, Topaz, WinRunner and TestDirector are registered trademarks of Mercury Interactive Corporation, Sunnyvale, California. Product and company names are used herein for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective companies.


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Autonomy Expands Relationship with BEA and Joins BEA Portal Star Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN; LSE: AU.), a global leader in infrastructure software for enterprise, today announced that it has expanded its relationship with BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS - news). In addition to its own existing OEM partnership with BEA, Autonomy has now joined the new BEA Portal Solution program and will offer four portlets on the new BEA Portlet Gallery(TM).

``We were delighted when BEA joined our OEM partner program earlier this year,'' said Autonomy CEO Dr. Michael Lynch. ``It is with great pleasure that in addition to having BEA as one of our OEM partners, we are now a part of the BEA Portal Star Solution partner program. We look forward to working with BEA and joining the ranks of other top companies that are providing solutions in the BEA Portlet Gallery.''

As previously announced on June 5, 2001, BEA joined Autonomy's OEM partner program and had selected Autonomy's infrastructure technology for use within the current version of BEA Portal Framework, as well as with the new BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0. Autonomy's software is currently available to customers as part of the BEA partner pack that ships with BEA WebLogic Personalization Server 3.5 and will ship with BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0. In addition, Autonomy will now provide four portlets for the BEA Portlet Gallery. These portlets include: Autonomy Retrieval Portlet, Autonomy Agent Portlet, Autonomy Profile Portlet and the Autonomy Community Portlet.

Autonomy integrates information from disparate repositories through an understanding of the content. At the heart of Autonomy's software is its ability to analyze text and voice (in any language) and identify and rank the main concepts within it. The software then automatically categorizes, links, personalizes and delivers that information. The technology is used to automate these operations within enterprise information portals, business intelligence, customer relationship management, knowledge management and e-business applications.

About Autonomy

Autonomy Corporation plc (Nasdaq: AUTN; Nasdaq Europe: AUTN; LSE: AU.) is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. Autonomy's technology powers applications dependent upon unstructured information including: e-commerce, customer relationship management, knowledge management, enterprise information portals, enterprise resource planning and online publishing. Autonomy's customer base includes more than 475 global companies, including Astra Zeneca, British Aerospace, Clorox, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Motors, Lucent, Royal SunAlliance, Sun Microsystems and public sector agencies including the United States Department of Defense, NASA and the United States Department of Energy. Strategic reseller and OEM partners include leading companies such as BEA, Business Objects, Hewlett Packard, IBM Global Services, Oracle, Vignette and Sybase. The company has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia and is on the Web at http://www.autonomy.com.

Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

With the exception of historical information, the matters set forth in this news release are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. These factors include, among others, technology risks, including dependence on core technology; fluctuations in quarterly results; dependence on new product development; rapid technological and market change; reliance on sales by others; management of growth; dependence on key personnel; rapid expansion; growth of the Internet; financial risk management; and future growth subject to risks. These factors and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are also discussed in the company's filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including Autonomy's Annual Report on Form 20-F and Registration Statements on Form F-1.

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Informatica Collaborates With BEA to Provide Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications

BEA WebLogic Brings Scalable J2EE Infrastructure for Real-Time, Mobile Enterprise Analytics to Customers Worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO, Informatica World 2001, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq: INFA - news) today announced a strategic relationship with BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, under which Informatica has licensed BEA WebLogic® as a key technology in its newly introduced Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications 5. The combined solution allows customers to quickly deploy scalable and flexible infrastructures that enable a 360-degree view of the enterprise that is critical for maximizing business efficiency, performance and profitability.

The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM) is a single infrastructure solution with complete application management, portal, integration and Web Services capabilities. BEA WebLogic provides an Internet-based architecture to business intelligence solutions, which are typically based on client-server legacy architectures. The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform provides significant technology advantages, including load balancing, fault tolerance, standards-based authentication, and broad deployment to an unprecedented set of users, while also leveraging the investments that CIOs have made on J2EE infrastructure.

Informatica has joined the growing list of vendors participating in the BEA Portal Star Solution. The BEA Portal Star Solution provides a designation for partners that offer complementary products or services, such as Informatica's analytic software, that will be tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0. By participating in BEA's partner initiative, joint customers will benefit from BEA WebLogic Portal's strict adherence to Java standards, open portal framework and integration services.

``BEA WebLogic has become the e-business platform of choice for many of our customers,'' said Gaurav Dhillon, CEO of Informatica. ``The scalability and flexibility of BEA WebLogic, combined with the Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications, will provide our customers with a powerful solution that will bring business-critical information into the hands of decision-makers in real-time.''

``Informatica's Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Applications, built on BEA WebLogic, will bring customers integrated voice, wireless and Web access to analytics dashboards and communications tools,'' said Alfred Chuang, BEA founder, president and CEO. ``The BEA WebLogic industry standard J2EE infrastructure will bring Informatica's enterprise customers the scalability and flexibility needed for today's competitive market.''

About Informatica

Informatica provides enterprise analytic software that enables decision makers to transform business insight into competitive advantage. Informatica provides the industry's only integrated enterprise analytics suite, including a powerful data integration platform, cross value chain analytic applications, and real-time delivery of analytics via Web, wireless and voice. More than 1,370 customers, including 60 percent of the Fortune 100, rely on Informatica software to integrate, analyze, personalize and deliver critical information to managers, executives and other decision makers to optimize business performance.

Our list of global customers includes 3Com, AMD, American Airlines, BMW, Borders Group, Brocade, Brunswick, Chevron, Cisco, CNET, Deutsche Bank, eBay, France Telecom, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, MetLife, Motorola, Nokia, Orbitz, Philips, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sprint, UBS, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Postal Service and Vizzavi. For more information, call [phone], or visit the Informatica Web site at www.informatica.com.

Note: Informatica, PowerCenter Informatica Analytics Delivery Platform and Informatica Analytics Server are trademarks or registered trademarks of Informatica Corporation in the United States and jurisdictions throughout the world. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

For further information please contact: Samantha Moore of Informatica Corporation, [phone], mobile, [phone], [e-mail]; or Colleen Haikes of TSI Communications, [phone], mobile, [phone], [e-mail], for Informatica Corporation.

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Stellent To Join the BEA Portal Star Solution

Partner Initiative Provides BEA-Ready Content Management Solution and Portal Integration

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001--Stellent(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq:STEL - news), a global provider of enterprise content management solutions formerly named IntraNet Solutions, today announced it is one of the charter vendors participating in the BEA Portal Star Solution, a new partner initiative from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS - news).

The BEA Portal Star Solution provides a designation for partners who offer complementary products or services which are tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal, and who meet one of the following criteria: build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0; integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0; or develop consulting practices around the portal product. The Stellent(TM) Content Management system is currently integrated to the WebLogic Personalization Server 3.5, and Stellent plans to integrate the system with the BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 once available. The integration can provide Global 2000 customers with a BEA-Ready(TM) solution that enables seamless content contribution to the BEA WebLogic Portal.

The Stellent and BEA integration is designed to allow users to contribute content in more than 225 formats directly into the Stellent Content Management system through the BEA WebLogic Portal interface. Stellent's unique ability to accept and manage content in native file formats, as well as its automatic conversion capabilities, enables anyone in an organization to contribute content to the portal, regardless of the tools used to create and update that content. The Stellent Content Management system then publishes the content so that it may be accessed through the BEA WebLogic portal interface by a variety of audiences and devices, including mobile and wireless.

``Stellent is excited to partner with BEA, a market leader in the infrastructure software space,'' said Dan Ryan, vice president of marketing and business development for Stellent. ``Our customers will benefit from BEA WebLogic Portal's strict adherence to Java standards, open portal framework and integration services. Together, BEA WebLogic Portal and the Stellent Content Management system can provide them with the rapid deployment and quick return on investment they require.''

For more information on the BEA Star Partner Program and Star Solutions designation, call the BEA Partner Resource Center 1-866-323-STAR in the United States or visit the BEA partner Web site at www.bea.com/partners/star_solution.shtml.

Stellent Content Management Features

Stellent Content Management, formerly known as Xpedio Content Management, rapidly deploys scalable content-centric Web sites and manages business and Web content for other e-business applications, such as enterprise portals and business commerce applications. The system Web-enables business content by aggregating content from multiple sources, converting it to Web formats, managing and publishing it to the Web, and personalizing it for specific audiences, devices and applications. Stellent Content Management allows anyone, from one to thousands of users, to easily contribute content via a browser in any format and automatically convert it to a variety of Web formats, such as PDF, HTML, XML, WML and cHTML. The system also integrates with existing security systems and provides business personalization features. For information on how to obtain the Stellent Content Management system, contact Stellent at 1-800-989-8774.

About Stellent, Inc.

Stellent, Inc. (www.stellent.com), formerly known as IntraNet Solutions, is a global provider of enterprise content management solutions for scalable business Web sites. The company has been ranked one of the top three content management vendors by industry analyst firms Gartner Dataquest, Forrester Research and Aberdeen Group, and has more than 1,500 customers, including much of the Global 2000. Its customer roster includes Merrill Lynch, Agilent Technologies, Target Corp., Cox Communications, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard and Ericsson Telecom AB. Stellent, with more than 475 employees, is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minn. and maintains offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Any forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties including, without limitation, risks of intellectual property litigation, risks in technology development and commercialization, risks in product development and market acceptance of and demand for the Company's products, risks of downturns in economic conditions generally and in the Web content management tools and intranet information management markets specifically, risks associated with competition and competitive pricing pressures, risks associated with foreign sales and higher customer concentration and other risks detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

IntraNet Solutions is a registered trademark, and Stellent and the Stellent logo are trademarks of Stellent, Inc. in the USA and other countries. Outside In and Quick View Plus are registered trademarks of Stellent Chicago, Inc. in the USA and other countries. All other trade names are the property of their respective owner.

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, and How Business Becomes E-Business are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc.

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BEA Selects Venetica for Portal Star Solution Initiative To Provide Access to Multiple Content Management Systems

BEA Customers Gain Real-Time Access to Content Anywhere it Resides

CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001-- Venetica, the leading provider of content integration solutions, today announced that it has been selected by BEA to participate in the BEA Portal Star Solution, a partner initiative from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news).

The BEA Portal Star Solution provides a designation for partners that offer complementary products or services that are tightly integrated with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM). Venetica's flagship product VeniceBridge(TM) will enable BEA WebLogic customers to access, share and collaborate on vast stores of content that exist in various disparate repositories throughout an organization, including Documentum, Eastman, FileNET, VisualInfo, Lotus Notes, Open Text, and others.

Venetica is the pioneer and leader in Content Integration. Venetica recognized the critical role that content plays in eBusiness and enterprise applications, and launched the industry's first software to access and exchange unstructured information, including documents, images and multimedia, regardless of how or where it is stored. The VeniceBridge solution allows BEA WebLogic customers to save time, resources and money spent in creating specific integrations to content repositories, thereby creating well-integrated enterprise-wide solutions with access to all relevant content.

``BEA WebLogic customers need to access unstructured content across the organization from their portal solutions. VeniceBridge allows customers to tap into that wealth of information via a single point of access from anywhere inside or outside the enterprise,' said Stuart Levinson, president and CEO, Venetica. ``We are enthused to partner with BEA to help customers leverage their existing investments in content management, resulting in an improved ROI for their portals and other enterprise applications, such as extranets and CRM solutions.'

The BEA Portal Star Solution is designed for partners who will meet one of the following criteria: Build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, or develop a consulting practice around the portal product. The initial Portal Star Solution partners, and joint customers, will benefit greatly from BEA WebLogic Portal's strict adherence to Java standards, open portal framework and integration services.

``Venetica's VeniceBridge provides the link to connect information from disparate content repositories, which can help BEA WebLogic Portal customers improve access, and the exchange of content, throughout the enterprise and among trading partners,' said Pat O'Haren, senior director of product marketing, BEA Systems.

For more information on the BEA Star Partner Program and Star Solutions designation, call the Partner Resource Center 1-866-323-STAR in the United States or visit the BEA partner Web site at www.bea.com/partners/star_solution.shtml.

About Venetica

Venetica is the leading provider of content integration solutions. The company's flagship product, VeniceBridge, provides the infrastructure that portals, collaborative applications, customer relationship management and other key applications use to access and exchange content throughout the enterprise and among trading partners. At the heart of VeniceBridge is a single, consistent interface that enables applications to quickly integrate with the multiple, disparate repositories that store documents, images, reports, rich media and other relevant content. VeniceBridge can then aggregate, deliver and exchange the content with other applications in real time. Its Java and EJB-based architecture includes a SOAP-based Web services interface. Venetica also provides applications and tools to build content-centric business process solutions. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Venetica partners with leading software vendors and system integrators in North America and Europe to deliver solutions around the world.


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WebEx's Interactive Web Conferencing Services Offered Through BEA WebLogic Portal

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- WebEx Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBX - news), the leader in interactive communications infrastructure for business meetings on the Web, today announced that it has teamed with BEA Systems (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), to offer WebEx's multimedia Web conferencing services to customer of BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0. As a partner in the BEA Portal Star Solution, WebEx's services easily integrate with BEA WebLogic Portal, making it possible to add WebEx's interactive Web meeting services to any BEA WebLogic-powered enterprise portal.

WebEx allows companies to hold highly interactive Web meetings with customers and colleagues through a standard browser. Its highly interactive Web meeting services help companies reduce travel expenses, increase sales, shorten project development times, and improve communications and customer support. WebEx's communications services support data, voice and video and are built on the only global network designed specifically for interactive Web- based communications.

``WebEx is a market leader in Web-based interactive communications services, and its pre-built portlets will help BEA WebLogic Portal customers increase employee productivity and efficiency, and differentiate their products and services to customers,'' said Pat O'Haren, senior director of marketing, BEA E-Commerce Application Components Division.

``WebEx's communications services can transform any enterprise portal into an interactive meeting environment for conducting business,'' said Stewart Sonnenfeldt vice president of Business Development at WebEx Communications. ``The standards based structure of the WebEx communications platform makes it easy to integrate into any enterprise portal offering.''

Web Meetings with Data, Voice and Video

WebEx provides Web-based interactive communications services to corporations worldwide. Departments across the enterprise use WebEx meetings to reduce travel costs, increase sales and improve productivity. WebEx supports the entire range of data, voice and video communications to provide an online environment that simulates the full spontaneity and productivity of face-to-face meetings. All of WebEx's services are built on the WebEx interactive platform and are supported by WebEx's global communication network, a switch-based network that runs parallel to the public network to ensure scalability, reliability, security and performance. Detailed information regarding all of WebEx's services is available at http://webex.com/home/services_business.html .

The BEA Portal Star Solution is designed for partners who will meet one of the following criteria: Build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0; integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0; or develop consulting practices around the portal product. For more information on the BEA Star Partner Program and Star Solutions designation, call the Partner Resource Center 866-323-STAR in the United States or visit the BEA partner Web site at www.bea.com/partners/star_solution.shtml.

About WebEx Communications, Inc.

Founded in 1996, WebEx Communications, Inc. is the leader in Internet infrastructure for interactive business communications. WebEx provides Web-based carrier-class communication services using its multimedia-switching platform deployed over a global network. WebEx's services enable end-users to share presentations, documents, applications, voice, and video spontaneously in a seamless environment. WebEx services are used across the enterprise in sales, support, training, marketing, engineering, and various other functions. With its modular framework and standards-based APIs, WebEx's real-time communications platform is the ``dial-tone'' for meetings on the Web. Please call toll free 877-509-3239 or visit http://www.webex.com for more information.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements may be identified by use of the terms anticipates, believes, continue, could, estimates, expects, intends, may, plans, potential, predicts, should or will, or the negative of those terms or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those described in such statements as a result of these risks and uncertainties. In particular, these forward looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements that Web-based interactive communications services, and its pre-built portlets will help BEA WebLogic Portal customers increase employee productivity and efficiency, and differentiate their products and services to customers and that the WebEx network ensures scalability, reliability, security and performance . Factors which could contribute to risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the failure of BEA WebLogic Portal customers to adopt the WebEx service and use it effectively in their business and failures and interruptions in the software and systems underlying WebEx's services. A fuller discussion of the risks and uncertainties that could affect WebEx Communications, Inc. are more fully set forth in WebEx's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including WebEx's Form 10-K filed on April 2, 2001 and Form 10-Q filed on July 30, 2001. WebEx Communications, Inc. assumes no obligation to update forward-looking information contained in this press release.

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BEA Selects Compoze Software To Provide Collaboration Portlets For BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0

PHILADELPHIA, PA--(INTERNET WIRE)--Oct 22, 2001-- Compoze Software today announced that BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, has selected Compoze's Harmony Portlet Suite 3.0 for customers of BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0.
"BEA's selection of Compoze to provide collaborative portlets for all BEA WebLogic Portal customers demonstrates the value and need for collaborative applications within corporate portals and corroborates the speed-to-market and extensibility features offered by the Compoze Component Architecture," said Tom DiClemente, CEO of Compoze Software. "By formalizing this alliance with industry leader BEA Systems, we strengthen our ability to bring time and cost saving collaborative solutions to our common customers."

Compoze was selected based on the breadth and extensibility of its' product. The Harmony Portlets enable users to plug-in collaborative features "out-of-the-box" including webmail, calendar, to-do, contacts and discussion and also offer direct integration to Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino. The raw power behind the portlets is the Harmony Component Suite. By upgrading to the Harmony Component Suite, BEA WebLogic Portal customers are able to easily and quickly build entirely new applications and portlets to expand their collaborative application requirements.

"Collaborative software is a must-have application for enterprise portals, and Compoze is a market leader in Java-based collaboration software and solutions," said Pat O'Haren, senior director of product marketing, BEA Systems. "Compoze's Harmony Component Suite will help BEA WebLogic Portal customers speed time to market with plug-and-play collaborative applications and customized portals for easily accessing and using email, calendar, to-do lists and discussion boards."

BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 customers will receive the Compoze Harmony Portlet Suite 3.0 at no additional charge. The Compoze Harmony Portlet Suite 3.0 will be available in November. Customers with specific questions concerning collaborative portlets or with interest in upgrading to the full Harmony Component Suite for construction of new collaborative applications or portlets, should contact Compoze Software directly at 610.862.1104 or www.compoze.com.

About Compoze Software:

Compoze Software (CSI) is a leading provider of Java software components for adding collaborative functionality to web-based applications. CSI's software components interface with all operating systems and have been proven to cut development time and cost in half versus developing the complete application from scratch. CSI's components have been successfully applied in a variety of applications, including Portal Development, Sales Force Automation, Mobile Information Access, Project Management and other applications involving scheduling, contact management, communications and other forms of collaboration. Compoze customers include several of the most prominent global companies in financial services, telecommunications and health care. For more information about Compoze Software and their products and services, visit www.compoze.com.

Product Description:

The Harmony Portlet Suite is an extension of the Harmony Component Suite enabling end users to quickly add 90%+ functionality inside a portal framework. Harmony Portlets can be dropped into a portal framework "out-of-the-box " to quickly add collaborative functionality to any corporate portal. Since Harmony Portlets are built on the Harmony Component Suite component framework, Harmony Portlets can be easily customized and extended to modify or add new features. Functionality specifications are available at www.compoze.com/hps.html

The Harmony Component Suite (HCS) is a collection of Java software components for adding collaborative functionality when building new applications and corporate portals. HCS typically provides up to 60% of the end user's functionality thus improving speed-to-market, and reducing cost. HCS includes components for calendaring, webmail, to-do, contacts and discussion and integrates with legacy systems such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes. Functionality specifications and download information is available at www.compoze.com/download.html

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, and How Business Becomes E-Business are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc.

Java and all Java-based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States, other countries, or both.

All other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

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Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal allows line of business managers to mass-produce and mass-customize portals

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. and SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001--

Joint solution for harnessing the power of BEA WebLogic Portal and

Bowstreet Business Web Factory to increase return on investments

Bowstreet (www.bowstreet.com) and BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news) today announced a new product called the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal, designed to automate the mass production of portal applications across the enterprise. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will enable business users to automate the construction and management of portal applications and cascading portals across a network of employees, partners or customers. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal, available later this year, will work in tandem with BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0, announced separately today.

The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will let companies create portals in a matter of days, allowing customers to slash maintenance and customization costs, and reap significant returns on their application development investments. In order to scale these portals across the Internet, Bowstreet will leverage the strength of the BEA WebLogic Portal's foundation, administration, personalization and integration services. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will automate these and other services to simplify the development, deployment and multi-team administration of portal applications.

For example, a global automobile manufacturer can use the BEA WebLogic Portal to create a master portal consisting of all the content and services employees, partners and customers will need to access. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal would then allow business managers throughout the company to instruct the master portal to create cascading portals for thousands of dealers or customers in a matter of days. Similarly, these dealers and customers will be able to delegate the creation and mass-customization of sub-portals for their customers.

``The need to create families of web applications and to unify those applications across the enterprise is driving the move to Generation 3 Portals. These new Gen 3 solutions require a robust application architecture and the automated creation and management of cascading portals that provide for complex process integration and full web services support,'' said Gene Phifer, vice president and research director, Gartner, Inc.

Built on the same patent-pending, parametric-automation technology found in Bowstreet's Business Web Factory, the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will be comprised of a set of wizards and tools, as well as a run-time component for mass-producing and mass-customizing portal applications. The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will act as a ``portal factory'' to create unique, just-in-time composite web applications based on individual, varying business scenarios or market needs.

With the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal solution:

Non-technical business managers will be able to create, manage and customize families of portals. They can accomplish this through a simple point-and-click wizard, helping companies save on development time and resources.
Companies will be able to distribute, manage, aggregate and syndicate portals across departments, and partners' and customers' web sites.
Companies will be able to automate the creation of new portals based on the user's context - the device, the user class, access rights and more.
Information technology professionals will be able to reduce the time and effort required to add functionality, support new variations, and manage changes across deployed cascading portal applications.
``The Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal will allow customers to create thousands of portal applications, constantly change or update them, and cascade those portals to networks of employees, partners or customers,'' said Pat O'Haren, senior director of marketing, BEA Application Components Division. ``BEA WebLogic Portal provides the underlying portal foundation, personalization, integration and e-business infrastructure software so families of portals can scale across the web.''

``We view BEA WebLogic Portal as an extremely powerful platform upon which portal applications can run,'' said Rose O'Donnell, vice president of engineering, Bowstreet. ``We can augment BEA's solution with automation, mass-production and mass-customization of portals, enabling modifications as business conditions change in only days versus weeks or months.''

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news) is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the web at www.bea.com.

About Bowstreet

Bowstreet, a recognized leader in web services, enables businesses to form dynamic, distributed networks called ``business webs'' that leverage the strengths of the entire value chain while providing rich, streamlined web experiences for employees, partners and customers. The Bowstreet(TM) Business Web Factory automates the creation, assembly and maintenance of families of composite web applications, dramatically increasing programmer productivity. Available options harness the power of the Business Web Factory with leading application, portal and integration platforms. More information may be found at www.bowstreet.com or by calling 603-559-1900.

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the implementation, benefits and details of the relationship between BEA and Bowstreet; the availability, features and benefits of BEA's and Bowstreet's products, particularly the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal; and the expected availability later this year of the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the ongoing development and functionality of BEA's and Bowstreet's products, particularly the Bowstreet Factory for BEA WebLogic Portal; changes in the marketplace for enterprise-wide software solutions, portal applications and tools and management solutions therefore, including the introduction of products and technologies that compete with BEA's and Bowstreet's products; and any software errors in BEA's or Bowstreet's products. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2001 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.

Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet, Inc.

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA Campaign Manager for WebLogic, BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, and How Business Becomes E-Business are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc.

All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners.


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BEA Launches Portal Star Solution Initiative With Support From 66 Partners

Speeding Enterprise Portal Deployments: BEA Portlet Gallery to Showcase 1,000 Application Portlets Online in Six Months

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced the new BEA Portlet Gallery(TM), as well as 66 initial companies that have qualified as BEA Portal Star Solution partners. With a network of 2,100 partners, BEA expects to reach its goal of 1,000 content, Web Services and application portlets posted to the BEA Portlet Gallery by the end of April 2002. A portlet is a module within a portal that provides real-time access to information or applications, such as news, weather, email, discussion groups and more.

The BEA Portal Star Solution initiative is designed for partners who will meet one of the following criteria: they build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) 4.0; they integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, or they develop consulting practices around BEA's portal product. With BEA Portal Star Solution partners, customers will be able to easily create specific portals for their own partners, suppliers, customers and employees leveraging pre-integrated partner solutions for content management, search, syndicated content, security, collaboration, Web Services, and business intelligence and analytics. Many of the partners that have qualified for the Portal Star Solution initiative, including leading system integrators and independent software vendors, are already building and integrating portlets, portal applications and services on the BEA WebLogic Portal. Some of these partners include CSC, PeopleSoft, ScreamingMedia and WebEx Communications.

``Many of our clients, such as Nokia and Johnson Controls, have faced multiple business-to-employee initiatives, all of which need to achieve maximum value while providing immediate impact and tangible ROI,'' said Joe Eazor, CEO of Springbow. ``Our solution set encompasses a wide range of Web-enabled services and is centered on enterprise portal design and implementation. For this reason, all of our solutions are built on enterprise technology from BEA Systems.''

``Bowstreet enthusiastically supports BEA's efforts to form a partner coalition around a standard portal framework,'' stated Rose O'Donnell, vice president of engineering, Bowstreet. ``By providing integration to BEA WebLogic Portal, Bowstreet enables customers to achieve tremendous economies of scale when rolling out families of portal applications to address multiple e-business initiatives. When standardized, the components found in the BEA Portlet Gallery can be assembled by Bowstreet into massively customizable portal applications that reduce maintenance costs over the life of the application.''

The BEA Portlet Gallery is an online community highlighting partner solutions integrated with the BEA WebLogic Portal, to be available from www.bea.com at the end of November. The gallery is designed to allow customers and system integrators to access and search hundreds of application, content and Web Services portlets. The BEA Portlet Gallery will allow customers to quickly browse and select the portlets that best fit their needs. Detailed descriptions, white papers, FAQs and demos will allow customers to take immediate advantage of the offerings within the BEA Portlet Gallery. Through the gallery, BEA's software partners will have a much greater opportunity to work with BEA's system integrator partners to create repeatable solution sets and business practices targeted at specific industry verticals.

``Our clients expect us to deliver platform technologies that can be tailored and quickly integrated into their enterprise,'' said David Reinke, vice president, Braun Consulting. ``With the introduction of BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 and the BEA Portlet Gallery, we can quickly access, assemble and integrate best-of-breed technologies from vendors like Documentum, Business Objects and Autonomy into the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform. This model enables our clients to more rapidly introduce sophisticated interactivity with their customers and partners which lowers total cost of ownership and helps build competitive advantage in the marketplace.''

The initial 66 qualified partners, as well as joint customers, will benefit from BEA WebLogic Portal's strict adherence to Java standards, open portal foundation and integration services. BEA Portal Star Solution partners will form consulting practices around BEA WebLogic Portal, or provide integrated solutions for content management, search, syndicated content, security, collaboration, Web Services, among others. The initial partners committed to the BEA Portal Star Solution follow:

Independent Software Vendors:

Alerts, Alphablox, AltaVista, Answerfriend, Autonomy, Inc., Artesia, Bowstreet, BoxCar, Business Objects, Caput, Cardonet, ClearCommerce, ClickAction, Compoze Software, CrystalDecisions, CyberSource, divine, inc., Documentum, Entegrity, E.piphany, FatWire, FileNET, Gauss, Hyperion, Ikimbo, InduraSoft, Informatica, InfoStep, Inktomi, Interwoven, InterX, Intraspect, Kana, Neocore, Netegrity, NetGenesis, NewsEdge, Norcom, Oblix, OnePage, Participate.com, PeopleSoft, QuadStone, Reef, ScreamingMedia, RSA/Securant, Selectica, Stellent, Venetica, Verity, Vignette, WebEx Communications, Yantra, YOUcentric

Systems Integrators:

Braun Consulting, Bull, CSC, Digital ESP, eTouch, FCW Consulting, Groundswell, Net Effect, NOVO, Silverpeas, Springbow, TechSpan

The Portal Star Solution initiative is one of several BEA Star Solutions, developed to extend the value of the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM). BEA Star partners can get information about qualifying for Portal Star Solution designation by going to www.bea.com/partners/star_solution.shtml. Also on the site is information on how to become a member of the BEA Star Partner Program, which provides tools and information designed to enhance partners' ability to provide their customers with world class e-business solutions.

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statement regarding BEA reaching its goal of 1,000 content, Web Services and application portlets online by April 2002. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: changes in the marketplace for enterprise-wide software solutions, portal applications and Web Services, including the introduction of products and technologies that compete with BEA's. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2001 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.

NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic M-Commerce Solution, BEA Portlet Gallery and BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

SOURCE: BEA Systems, Inc.

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New BEA Portal and Integration Software Expand the Power of the Industry's Leading E-Business Platform

More Than 65 Partners Line Up Behind BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 and BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced the availability of BEA WebLogic® Portal 4.0 and BEA WebLogic Integration(TM) 2.1. The new products are designed to simplify the development, integration and presentation of applications, systems, and business processes spanning an enterprise's employees, customers, and partners. BEA also announced (see separate BEA news release issued today) the BEA Portal Star Solution(TM), BEA Portlet Gallery(TM) and more than 65 partners supporting BEA WebLogic Portal(TM) and BEA WebLogic Integration.

Together with the industry-leading BEA WebLogic Server(TM) 6.1, the new portal and integration products form the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform(TM), a single infrastructure solution with complete application management, portal, integration and Web Services capabilities. This unified e-business platform delivers integrated technologies such as Web application server, application integration, business process management, and B2B integration, as well as personalization, commerce and portal.

``Global 2000 organizations are embracing a platform-based approach that defines a common stack of products and technologies that all enterprise applications can leverage,'' said Craig Roth, senior program director at META Group, a leading research and consulting firm. ``The e-business stack continues to add layers as new technologies emerge, such as application server, portal framework, Web services and integration. And the e-business platform vendors will continue to subsume functionality as common features are recognized.''

``Crown Castle needed a complete, scalable, and integrated e-business software platform that would enable us to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace, and the BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform uniquely met our strategic business needs,'' said Steven Schmitt, senior vice president and CIO, Crown Castle International. ``BEA is enabling us to fully automate and integrate our order management and fulfillment processes, and provide our customers with access through a simplified portal view.''

BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 simplifies and customizes access to information, applications and business processes by providing portal foundation services, personalization and interaction management, intelligent administration and integration services. Built on BEA WebLogic Server 6.1, these technologies provide a unified platform for businesses to customize users' portal experiences, help increase employee productivity through internal portals, and help reduce the overall cost of linking portals with businesses' supply chain, customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning initiatives. BEA WebLogic Portal can rapidly scale to thousands of concurrent users and transactions, and is designed to manage multiple portal initiatives.

BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1 provides a unified, standards-based integration solution that enables companies to develop and deploy new Web and wireless applications, rapidly integrate them with existing systems, streamline complex business processes, and connect with business partners. Built on BEA WebLogic Server 6.1, BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1 combines application server, application integration, business process management, and B2B integration functionality. With BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1, enterprises now have complete EDI functionality, message processing and handling, and Value Added Network connectivity. BEA WebLogic Integration also helps companies speed application development and deployment time, realize lower total costs, and scale for future changes and growth.

``Mortgage2000 is a growing online business, which provides personalized financial services and related information to consumers and Independent Financial Advisors,'' said Simon Nixon, CEO of Mortgage2000. ``BEA WebLogic Integration allows us to rapidly add new applications and deliver new services to customers. The solution supports our business-to-business channel by enabling us to efficiently add new online partners and outsource content to leading search engines and ISPs, including Yahoo!, FT.com and Lycos.''

In a separate BEA announcement today, the BEA Portal Star Solution is now available, with more than 65 partners initially committed to join. This BEA partner initiative is designed for partners who want to build application portlets for BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, integrate their applications to BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0, or develop consulting practices around the product. With Portal Star Solution partners, customers will be able to easily create specific portals leveraging pre-integrated partner solutions for content management, search, syndicated content, security, collaboration, analytics and more.

``As our clients extend and unify enterprise portals to provide customers, partners and employees greater access to applications and systems, they're evaluating new technologies to make their e-business initiatives more powerful,'' said Phil Karecki, chief architect for collaborative commerce at Computer Sciences Corporation. ``As a result, we choose to partner with vendors who can provide integration and portal software to simplify the adoption, and speed the deployment, of new e-business initiatives. For this reason, we have a strong and productive relationship with BEA.''

Availability

BEA WebLogic Integration 2.1 is available for download today from www.bea.com. BEA WebLogic Portal 4.0 is scheduled to be generally available for download on Oct. 29. For more information, contact a BEA sales representative at 800-817-4232.

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® brand are among the most trusted names in e-business. Businesses built on the award-winning BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic M-Commerce Solution, and BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

SOURCE: BEA Systems, Inc.

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[Joemoney]

BEA Unanimously Named Market Leader by All Major Industry Analyst Firms

#1 Market Share Position in Application Servers Confirmed by Leading Research Firm

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, today announced that independent research conducted by leading industry analyst firm Gartner Dataquest shows that BEA holds 41% of the new direct license revenue in the application server software market in 2000, a figure that is 10 share points higher than its closest competitor*. With this research, BEA has secured unanimous confirmation of its first place market position by every major industry analyst firm tracking the application server market.

The Gartner market analysis revealed the following market share results:

BEA - 41%

IBM - 31%

iPlanet - 13%

Oracle - 4%

HP Bluestone - 4%

Gartner, META Group, IDC and other leading industry analyst firms continue to name BEA the market leader for application servers based on software license revenue and on units deployed by global enterprises. Complementing Gartner's findings, a recent survey of Fortune 2000-class enterprises conducted by leading industry research firm META Group revealed that BEA holds 37% of the market for deployed application servers, a number that is nearly 70% higher than IBM. For applications leveraging Enterprise JavaBeans, BEA holds an even more commanding lead, nearly 4-to-1 over the number two vendor. ``No matter how industry analysts evaluate the market for application servers, BEA consistently emerges as the clear leader,'' said Tod Nielsen, chief marketing officer, BEA Systems. ``The detailed research from Gartner validates what we are hearing from our 11,000 customers and 2,100 partners: BEA is the preferred choice in the application server market.''

Leading enterprises, including the majority of Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies, continue to select BEA over the competition as the cornerstone of their e-business infrastructure. ``Knight Ridder Digital chose BEA WebLogic® as the e-business platform for Real Cities, a one-stop Web destination that combines the best in Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism, local news, interactive services and useful information about the city in which you live,'' said Rohn Jay Miller, senior vice president of Product & Technology Development at Knight Ridder Digital. ``We rely on BEA's technology as the foundation of the publishing system we use to power our network. BEA WebLogic provides a flexible, massively scalable, dependable platform that ensures the information people have come to rely upon will be available all day, every day without fail.''

Source: Gartner Dataquest ``The Application Server Market Will Stay Healthy'', J. Correia, October 2001.
About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. is one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies, with more than 11,000 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® 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 2,100 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 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.

NOTE: BEA, Tuxedo, WebLogic, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Server, BEA Portal Framework, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic M-Commerce Solution, and BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.

SOURCE: BEA Systems, Inc.

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[Joemoney]

BEAS has been up huge in the past few days. I hope it doesn't break down.

Joemoney