HP/BEA to Deliver Integration Solutions
(Palo Alto, CA) - BEA WebLogic Server is now available on HP AlphaServer systems running HP OpenVMS, HP ProLiant servers running Linux, and HP NonStop servers. HP has also announced a cooperative support agreement with BEA that provides customers running WebLogic Server on HP platforms with support from either HP or BEA.

This agreement establishes a formal support relationship between HP and BEA that outlines processes to be used to resolve interoperability concerns for joint customers.
www.hp.com, www.bea.com

BEA Expands Alliance with CSC's Consulting Group
(San Jose, CA) - Computer Sciences Corporation will leverage the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform on its CSC e4 enterprise architecture. This will enhance the ability of its Fortune 2000 clients to react quickly to change, institute process improvements, and improve collaboration - both internally and externally.

Based on open standards and best-of-breed technologies, CSC e4 delivers a complete, practical operational business process management (BPM) environment.
www.csc.com

Wily Technology in Leader Quadrant
(Brisbane, CA) - Wily Technology, a leader in Enterprise Java Application Management, announced that Gartner Inc. has positioned it in the leader quadrant in the J2EE Application Server Management Magic Quadrant.

Characteristics of companies in the leader quadrant include extensive management visibility, advanced functionality, increased ease-of-use features, and broad support for a wide range of J2EE offerings as well as operating systems.
www.wilytech.com

Covalent Delivers Web App Management Solution
(San Francisco) - Covalent Technologies has announced the immediate availability of Covalent Application Manager (CAM), its comprehensive Web application management solution designed specifically for IT Operations. CAM presents an integrated application view by automatically discovering and then correlating multiple components of a Web application.
www.covalent.net

BEA and Salesforce.com Announce Alliance
(San Jose, CA and New York) - BEA Systems, and salesforce.com have announced a strategic alliance to provide services-oriented application development solutions based on BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 and the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. This alliance will help advance sforce, the first client/service application development framework to enable enterprises to rapidly build and deliver business applications based on the software-as-service model.

Salesforce.com will offer BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 Java controls for sforce. The alliance will make it easier for customers to build, extend, and integrate service-oriented applications on the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform 8.1. The Java controls are service-oriented components, introduced with BEA WebLogic Workshop that make it easier to connect to and use any IT system or asset as a reusable service.
www.sforce.com, www.bea.com

Ubiquity, BEA Announce Joint Solution
(Atlanta) - Ubiquity, a developer of SIP-based communications software for service providers, has announced a joint solution with BEA Systems. Ubiquity has been selected as part of the new carrier-grade BEA WebLogic Service Delivery, which presents a standardized software infrastructure platform for developing, integrating, and deploying new digital services. The result leverages BEA WebLogic Workshop's integrated development framework to empower all application developers - not just J2EE or SIP experts - to rapidly create and deliver real-time, SIP-based services such as voice calling, presence, and instant messaging to end customers.
www.ubiquity.net

Persistence Software Enhances EdgeXtend for C++
(San Mateo, CA) - Persistence Software, a provider of real-time data services software for financial services and other data-intensive markets, has announced the availability of EdgeXtend for C++ Release 8.0. EdgeXtend for C++ joins EdgeXtend for BEA WebLogic in the EdgeXtend family of Persistence products.
www.persistence.com

Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, BEA Launch IT Solution
(New York and San Jose, CA) - Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC and BEA Systems have unveiled OFL(SM), Open Framework for Leasing, a comprehensive solution powered by BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1. OFL is a business integration suite designed to help companies consolidate and integrate leasing and lending applications more quickly and cost-efficiently, and can be customized to support any financing business.
www.cgey.com

Accenture Accelerator Eases Integration
(New York) - Accenture has introduced the Accenture Platform Accelerator, a new software platform designed to help companies build and integrate e-business applications on BEA WebLogic Platform more quickly and cost-effectively than previously possible.

Developed with BEA Systems, the Accenture Platform Accelerator will also help users integrate applications seamlessly, and minimizes the resources needed to run business processes and build applications on the WebLogic Platform.
www.accenture.com