BEA
Takes Aggressive Step to Further Leadership in Developer Tools Market; Acquires
Eclipse-based Company M7
BEAWorld 2005 – Santa Clara, Calif. – Sept. 28, 2005 – 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.
26 September 2005
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®,
the BEA WebLogic® products, the BEA AquaLogic™ 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
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. (NASDAQ: BEAS) 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®, Tuxedo®, JRockit®,
and the new AquaLogic™ family of Service Infrastructure — help customers
reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve
business agility and efficiency. For more information please visit www.bea.com.
Contact Information
May Petry
BEA Systems, Inc
+1-408-570-8704
may.petry@bea.com
Diana Wong
Weber Shandwick
+1-415-248-3426
djwong@webershandwick.com
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