SAN JOSE, Calif. - Sept. 9, 2002 - BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the
world's leading application infrastructure software company, today
announced that a broad portfolio of global partners and customers,
including HP, Intel, McKesson Corporation, Manugistics, Red Hat, SAS, UZ
Leuven and Wily Technology, will support BEA WebLogic JRockit 7.0? to
deliver customers the performance and cost efficiency to run Java
applications on a broad range of widely-used and affordable Intel servers,
thereby lowering total cost of ownership and enabling high ROIs. As a
truly independent enterprise software vendor, BEA offers partners and
customers total freedom to choose the server hardware and operating
systems that best matches their IT needs and resources.
By attracting the industry's top partners and customers to the BEA
WebLogic Enterprise Platform?, BEA can fulfill its customers' needs for a
complete application infrastructure offering. With the support of more
than 2,100 partners and more than 13,000 customers, BEA offers the most
ubiquitous software platform for building and running enterprise
applications.
"Together with our channel and ISV partners and early customer successes,
we aim to significantly accelerate the proliferation of BEA WebLogic on
Intel servers, as well as applications built on BEA," said Bob Griswold,
vice president and general manager, Java Runtime Products Group, BEA
Systems. "Our customers can benefit from faster performance of their
applications running on both the 32-bit and Itanium processor families and
will be empowered with greater freedom of choice in production
environments."
For more information on the general availability of BEA WebLogic JRockit
7.0, see related press release issued today.
BEA WebLogic JRockit 7.0 is immediately available for free download at
http://commerce.bea.com/downloads/weblogic_jrockit.jsp.
Read BEA WebLogic JRockit 7.0 partner and customer testimonials at
http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/jrockit/testimonials.shtml.
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is the world's leading application
infrastructure software company, providing the enterprise software
foundation for more than 13,000 customers around the world, including the
majority of the Fortune Global 500. BEA and its WebLogic® brand are among
the most trusted names in business.
Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 91 offices in 33 countries and
is on the Web at www.bea.com.
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