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About BEA
What does BEA do?
What does the acronym BEA stand for?
Where is BEA located?
Where may I find financial information about BEA?
Where may I find BEA developer information?

BEA Products
What products does BEA offer?
How do I buy a BEA product?
How much do BEA's products cost?
How do I get a free trial license?
Whom can I contact with support questions?
Where may I learn more about Beehive?

Customers & Partners
Which companies use BEA products?
Which companies have partnered with BEA?
How do I become a BEA partner?

BEA's Core Technologies
Enterprise JavaBeans
Web Services
XMLBeans

Education & Training
How do I find BEA training courses?
How do I become a BEA certified developer or administrator?
How can I interact with other BEA users?


About BEA

What does BEA do?
BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the flow of information and services, securely. BEA product lines - WebLogic®, Tuxedo®, 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. BEA's software is also the de facto standard for more than 1,500 partners—systems integrators (SIs), independent software vendors (ISVs) and application service providers (ASPs)—ensuring the successful deployment of your mission-critical business applications.

What does the acronym BEA stand for?
The acronym BEA is composed of the first initial of each of the company's three founders: Bill Coleman, Ed Scott, and Alfred Chuang.

Where is BEA located?
BEA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has 76 offices in 36 countries. See our regional office selector for a complete list of BEA offices worldwide.

Where may I find financial information about BEA?
BEA is traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol BEAS. Information for current and potential investors is available in our Investor Relations section or by contacting investor relations directly at investor.relations@bea.com or +1.888.BEA.0102.

Where may I find BEA developer information?
BEA hosts BEA dev2dev as an information resource specifically for developers.


Customers & Partners

Which companies are using BEA products?
BEA has more than 15,000 customers worldwide, including the majority of the Fortune Global 500. Among our customers are 100% of Fortune Global 500 Telecommunications companies, 100% of Fortune Global 500 Pharmaceutical companies, 100% of Fortune Global 500 Network Communications companies and 100% of Fortune 500 Financial Securities firms. Visit our customers section for more information about BEA customers, including profiles, case studies and testimonials.

Which companies have partnered with BEA?
BEA has more than 1,500 partners from systems integrators (SIs) to independent software vendors (ISVs) to application service providers (ASPs). To learn more about a BEA partner or to become a BEA partner, please access the BEA Partner Solutions Catalog.

How do I become a BEA partner?
For more information on about becoming a BEA partner, please visit the Become a Partner page.


BEA Products

What products does BEA offer?
BEA offers the following products:

BEA WebLogic Platform™ 8.1 BEA WebLogic Portal™ 8.1
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BEA WebLogic Server® 8.1   BEA JRockit™ JVM
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BEA WebLogic Workshop™ 8.1   BEA Tuxedo™ 8.1
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BEA WebLogic Integration™ 8.1   BEA WebLogic Express™ 8.1
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BEA WebLogic SIP Server™   BEA WebLogic Network Gatekeeper™
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BEA AquaLogic Service Bus™   BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform™
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BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security™   BEA AquaLogic Service Registry™
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BEA WebLogic Adapters™   BEA Mainframe Integration
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WebLogic Groupware Portlets  
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MobileAware Interaction Server, BEA WebLogic Edition™   ProActivity PA and P-BAM, BEA WebLogic Edition™
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BEA MessageQ™   BEA WebLogic Personal Messaging API
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How do I buy a BEA product?
To purchase BEA products and services, please contact BEA sales or visit the BEA download center at BEA dev2dev.

How much do BEA's products cost?
For pricing information, please contact BEA sales.

How do I get a free trial license?
Download now or request a CD

Whom may I contact with support questions?
For support, go to support.bea.com.

Where may I learn more about Beehive?
BEA has recently donated its Beehive project to the Apache Software Foundation, where it is currently in incubation. Apache Beehive is an open source project based on the WebLogic Workshop™ application framework. BEA donated Beehive to establish the first, cross-container, ease-of-use programming model for J2EE and SOA-based applications. Apache Beehive is intended to make Java enterprise development more broadly accessible and as easy as .NET. For information about BEA and the Open Source community, please visit BEA dev2dev.


BEA's Core Technologies

Enterprise JavaBeans
For more information about Enterprise JavaBeans, visit BEA dev2dev.

Web Services
For more information about BEA's approach to Web services, see our Web services solution overview or visit the Web services technology section on BEA dev2dev.

XMLBeans
For more information about XMLBeans, visit BEA dev2dev.


Education & Training

How do I find BEA training courses?
You can find BEA training courses worldwide through our regional selector.

How do I become a BEA certified developer or administrator?
BEA has a variety of certification levels. For more information, see our BEA Certification Program site.

How can I interact with other BEA users?
BEA dev2dev supports a variety of local user groups that provide informal discussion forums for topics such as the BEA WebLogic Platform and complementary technologies, web services, integration, information and application management, standards, and industry trends. BEA also supports a wide range of newsgroups for developers and architects. A full list of BEA's newsgroups is available at http://forums.bea.com.