BEAWorld 2005 - SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In
a move designed to illustrate its determination to stay at the forefront of
the developer tools market, BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), announced the
acquisition of M7, an Eclipse-based tools company based in Cupertino, Calif.
The acquisition of M7 accelerates the delivery of BEA developer tools on the
Eclipse Tools Framework and dovetails perfectly with BEA's "blended" strategy
for application development and deployment.
The BEA "blended" application strategy facilitates the bringing together
of open source and commercial software in a way that radically improves
developer productivity. M7 offers an Eclipse-based Integrated Development
Environment (IDE) called NitroX that offers unparalleled support for the
development of sophisticated web applications based on open source and
industry standard frameworks, including Struts, Hibernate, Java Server Faces
and JavaServer Pages. M7 will be a key component to the BEA tool strategy for
the company's entire product portfolio.
"Developers want the ability to mix-and-match the best components and
deployment platforms that give them optimal building blocks to get their jobs
done," said Mark Carges, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "M7 is
another step in our continued dedication to making application development
more efficient and fun so that developers can be more productive."
In February 2005, BEA joined the Eclipse Foundation as a board member and
strategic developer, and announced it will ship future versions of the award-
winning WebLogic Workshop on the Eclipse Tools Framework. BEA is focusing on
bringing the ease-of-use of WebLogic Workshop 8.1 to the Eclipse world. This
will raise the productivity bar in a very substantial way by offering an IDE
based on Eclipse that makes it easier to build applications on service
infrastructure and application infrastructure.
Since its release, BEA WebLogic Workshop has been recognized with numerous
industry awards for its ease-of-use features and innovations in the creation
of Web Services, web applications and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA).
The M7 NitroX product family: NitroX Studio, NitroX JSP IDE, NitroX Struts IDE
and NitroX JSF IDE, is available today at http://m7.com/ and currently
supports development on WebLogic Server, in addition to several other
environments. With the acquisition of M7, BEA plans to merge its existing
developer tools capabilities with M7's and provide these capabilities to the
market as the BEA Workshop for Java IDE. In addition, BEA Workshop for Java
will also provide a developer tooling base for all of BEA's product offerings.
The product will be available in 6-, 12- and 24-packs for companies
seeking to purchase development seats for groups or departments. Pricing will
be announced when the product is generally available.
About BEAWorld
BEAWorld is the annual infrastructure software technology conference
designed to provide critical insights, hands-on instruction, best-practice
strategies, and opportunities for interaction with like-minded professionals,
industry leaders, visionaries and expert practitioners.
In addition to working to make SOA a successful reality, BEAWorld delivers
the latest information on BEA's infrastructure technologies including BEA
Tuxedo(R), the BEA WebLogic(R) products, the BEA AquaLogic(TM) products and a
Partner Showcase to highlight the latest and greatest developments from the
extensive BEA partner community. To register or receive more information about
the Santa Clara event, please visit http://www.bea.com/beaworld.
Additional events are scheduled to be held throughout the year in the
following cities: London (Oct. 11-12); Paris (Oct. 13-14); Prague (Oct. 18-
19); Tokyo (Oct. 25-26); and Beijing (Dec. 7-8).
About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software,
providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of
information and services. BEA product lines -- WebLogic(R), Tuxedo(R),
JRockit(R) and the new AquaLogic(TM) family of Service Infrastructure -- help
customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented
Architectures (SOA) to improve business agility and efficiency. For more
information please visit http://www.bea.com.
Copyright (C) 2005 BEA Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. BEA, Built on
BEA, Jolt, Joltbeans, Steelthread, Top End, Tuxedo, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA
JRockit, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic, and WebLogic are registered trademarks
of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA AquaLogic, BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform, BEA
AquaLogic Enterprise Security, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus, BEA dev2dev
Subscriptions, BEA eLink, BEA MessageQ, BEA WebLogic Communications Platform,
BEA WebLogic Enterprise, BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic
Enterprise Security, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA
WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA WebLogic JDriver, BEA WebLogic Log
Central, BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic
Portal, BEA WebLogic SIP Server, BEA WebLogic WorkGroup Edition, and BEA
WebLogic Workshop are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA Mission Critical
Support is a service mark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product
names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third
parties.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking. 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 changes in the
technology, standards or marketplace for enterprise information integration
software; the timing of a recovery from the current economic and IT industry
downturn; any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development
BEA's solutions; and any software errors related to BEA's solutions. Readers
should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the
quarter ended July 31, 2005 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed
thereafter by BEA 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.
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