BEA Systems
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| ISIN | US0733251021 |
| founding | 1995 |
| resolution | 2008 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Oracle |
| Seat | San Jose (California) , United States |
| management | Alfred S. Chuang, CEO |
| sales | 1,535,000,000 US dollars (2007) |
| Branch | Software manufacturer |
| Website | www.bea.com |
| Status: 2009 | |
BEA Systems, Inc. was a US software company founded in 1995 with headquarters in San José, California , which was acquired by Oracle in 2008 .
BEA Systems has been a global provider of infrastructure software since 1995. The company name was derived from the first letters of the first names of the BEA founders Bill Coleman , Ed Scott and Alfred Chuang . Alfred Chuang was Chairman and CEO . BEA had annual sales of over $ 1 billion, had 77 offices in 37 countries and employed more than 4,000 people worldwide. BEA was profitable for more than 25 fiscal quarters in a row and had 15,000 customers.
On October 12, 2007, the software company Oracle made a takeover offer of $ 6.66 billion. The offer of $ 17 per BEA share was 21 percent above the closing price on the day before the announcement.
On January 16, 2008, BEA approved the acquisition by Oracle for $ 8.5 billion. On April 29, 2008, the takeover of BEA by Oracle was completed.
Products
The solutions from BEA Systems included the application server BEA WebLogic Server , the transaction monitor Tuxedo , the Java Virtual Machine JRockit and the BEA AquaLogic product family .
The application server BEA WebLogic Server and the transaction monitor BEA Tuxedo helped with the rapid development and implementation of application programs and the execution and settlement of transactions . BEA offered a platform using technologies and standards such as Enterprise JavaBeans , XML and CORBA .
BEA WebLogic SIP Server and BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, both components of the BEA WebLogic Communications Platform, were developed for telecommunications providers.
BEA AquaLogic products made it possible to develop and build service-oriented architectures (SOA). Services from different business areas were linked to one another in a process-oriented manner. BEA AquaLogic provided an interoperable infrastructure and a range of reusable infrastructure services for the management of SOAs and for the assembly of composite applications - regardless of the underlying technologies. The product family made services that are built on any platform, such as Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5, .NET , SAP , Oracle, Sybase or IBM operational by creating a connection framework (backbone) between the services and a common service infrastructure used. This enabled experts to create security and data policies for specific business processes and configure composite applications for running services without the need to develop new code.
AquaLogic contained a data service layer, an enterprise service bus , a process management suite, a portal and other software modules with which services, once developed, could be reused within a defined business environment. BEA enabled the service-oriented use of legacy applications and dissolved application islands in specialist departments through integration.
According to the manufacturer, the JRockit virtual machine was fully compatible with the Java VM from Sun Microsystems . It was specially designed for server operation. According to the manufacturer, it therefore had improved memory management and was supposedly more stable.
In Europe, BEA had expanded its Swedish research and development center for years. The engineering team there worked closely with R&D departments around the world. The tasks included strategic product planning, development and maintenance as well as quality assurance and technical documentation.
Oracle says it will continue to support BEA products.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oracle press release: Oracle Completes Acquisition of BEA Systems. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Oracle: BEA agrees to take over . In: manager-magazin.de . January 16, 2008 ( online [accessed January 23, 2008]).
- ^ Oracle: Guardian on My Oracle Support. Retrieved February 17, 2015 .