BEA Announces General Availability of WebLogic Server 8.1
(San Jose, CA) - BEA Systems, Inc., the world's leading application infrastructure software company, has announced the general availability of BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 and BEA WebLogic JRockit 8.1, the cornerstones of BEA's converged application platform suite.

As the base of the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server 8.1, an enterprise application server, is designed for building service-oriented Java applications that help solve the biggest challenge facing enterprises today - business integration. With this release, BEA introduces new functionality designed to shorten development cycles, increase operational efficiency, automate business processes, and deliver an adaptive foundation that can change at the speed of business - all while reducing overall costs.
www.bea.com

Confluent CORE 3.0 Platform Offers Service-Oriented Architecture Now
(Sunnyvale, CA) - Confluent Software Inc., has announced Confluent CORE 3.0, the latest version of its flagship Web services monitoring and active, policy-driven management platform. This version provides enterprise-class security management, a flexible deployment model, management for Java and .NET services right out of the box, and integration with leading systems management products.

CORE 3.0 is the first deployed Web services management platform that natively supports both Java and .NET applications.
www.confluentsoftware.com

WebLogic Enterprise Platform Foundation For NTT Service
(San Jose, CA) - BEA Systems, Inc., has announced that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, a telecommunications service provider, has selected the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform as the foundation for its L-Mode service.

The service, available throughout Japan, connects individuals to the Internet through traditional telephones and fax machines equipped with small L-Mode digital displays.
www.ntt.co.jp

Panscopic Enhances Analytic Reporting with WebLogic Platform
(San Francisco) - Panscopic, a provider of Web-based analytic reporting solutions, has announced the availability of Panscopic's native J2EE analytic reporting solution on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. Its integration with BEA WebLogic can extend the current functionality of the solutions it is used with, providing overall enhancement of applications.
www.panscopic.com

UICI Builds Interactive Enterprise Portal on BEA WebLogic
(San Jose, CA) - UICI, a provider of insurance and financial services for individuals and families, has built a collaborative employee portal on BEA WebLogic Portal, improving company-wide productivity and communication while reducing operating costs.

With its employees working at locations throughout the country, UICI deployed an enterprise portal utilizing BEA WebLogic Portal as a simplified means of maintaining strong intracompany communication, eliminating redundant processes reducing operating costs, and maximizing the productivity of employees and agents whose work requires interaction with people based in different offices.
www.bea.com, www.uici.com

EOC Selects the WebLogic Platform for Internet Trade-Clearing Utility
(San Jose, CA) - EnergyClear Operations Company, LLC (EOC) has built the first standards-based over-the-counter (OTC) Internet trade-clearing utility on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform and the onExchange Extensible Clearing System (ECS).

EOC provides and manages the facilities and technology necessary for the operation of clearinghouses for OTC commodity markets. They cited the extreme reliability, scalability, and the unmatched ease of integration that the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform provides as factors that make it the ideal foundation for the clearing application.
www.energyclear.com

Cyclone Commerce and BEA Offer First Application Platform Suite
(San Jose, CA and Scottsdale, AZ) - BEA Systems, Inc., and Cyclone Commerce, Inc., producer of collaboration management solutions, have announced an agreement whereby BEA WebLogic Platform 7.0 will become the industry's first application infrastructure software to support Cyclone Central, a trading partner collaboration management application. In addition, Cyclone Commerce announced that it intends to support BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, and intends to build prepackaged resource interfaces, called controls, for BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1, BEA's unified development environment.

Cyclone Central is an open, standards-based system that rapidly ramps, manages, monitors, and defines community policies for an entire network of hubs and endpoints.
www.cyclonecommerce.com