Event
Summary
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), one of the largest enterprise application
integration vendors, and BroadVision, Inc. (NASDAQ: BVSN) (Neuer Markt:
BDN), a supplier of personalized e-business applications, announced a
strategic alliance under which BroadVision has agreed to embed BEA WebLogic
Server within BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise, BroadVision's e-business
application platform.
"Our
partnership with BEA is part of our ongoing commitment to deliver the
most open and powerful e-business solutions," said Dr. Pehong Chen, president,
chairman and CEO of BroadVision. "By combining BEA's web infrastructure
expertise with BroadVision's long experience in self-service business
applications, we are working to create the industry's most comprehensive
e-business application platform." "BroadVision customers now have a clear
path to future-proofing their B2B and B2C application portfolios," said
Bill Coleman, founder, chairman and CEO of BEA Systems.
Market
Impact
The two companies have agreed to engage in collaborative engineering and
marketing initiatives. Together, the companies intend to supply next-generation
e-business solutions that combine the market's leading Java-based application
server with the leading e-business software applications. BEA and BroadVision
will be able to leverage their large installed bases of customers, giving
the customers a path to migrate to J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition). The two companies also believe that they can use their relationships
with systems integrators worldwide to develop and sell repeatable solutions.
User
Recommendations
Firms that have already embraced J2EE, Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaServer
Pages, and servlets, should strongly consider the combined offering of
BEA Systems and BroadVision. Those who have not yet considered switching
their applications to Java should investigate the technology before committing;
Java 2 is becoming very popular in the market for web applications. It
is likely that leading vendors will accelerate the release of new products
that depend on J2EE, so embracing the technology sooner rather than later
may be a smart move.