Amstelveen-June 18, 2003-BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world's leading application infrastructure software company, today announced that BEA WebLogic Server 8.1T has been awarded JavaWorld's 2003 Editors'
Choice Award for the Best Application Server. This prestigious award from JavaWorld, a leading developer publication, honors companies, organizations and individuals for developing groundbreaking, tools that advance the Java platform.
In a head-to-head review, JavaWorld editors tested and compared BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, IBM WebSphere Application Server 5.0 and JBoss 3.0.
Based on features, functionality and its influence on Java, the judges found BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 to be the outstanding application server.
Highlighting BEA's superior offerings, JavaWorld noted: "BEA WebLogic Server continues to lead in performance and standards compliance.
WebLogic tends to support the most recent Java API levels and is an exceedingly developer-friendly product." According to the judges: "The application servers keep getting better and better, especially, BEA WebLogic."
"This latest recognition from the industry experts at JavaWorld affirms that BEA continues to innovate one-step-ahead of the competition," said Erik Frieberg, senior director of product marketing at BEA Systems.
"BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 can provide businesses with the most robust and easy-to-use platform available on the market for developing, deploying and extending Java applications, so customers can focus on using IT for productivity gains and competitive advantage -- not maintenance of the status quo."
As the base of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise PlatformT, BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, an enterprise application server, is designed for building service-oriented Java applications that help solve the number one challenge facing enterprises today -- business integration. BEA WebLogic Server is BEA's flagship product that earned the company's reputation for providing incomparable reliability, availability, scalability and security.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software foundation for more than 13,500 customers around the world, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogicR brand are among the most trusted names in business.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 81 offices in 34 countries and is on the Web at www.bea.com.
Meer informatie voor de redactie:
Bertil Snel
BEA Systems
020 201 8177
snel@bea.com
Monique Potters
Potters PR
0345 501595 / 06 28 88 96 32
monique@potterspr.nl
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