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BEA Joins HP's 5nines:5minutes Alliance
BEA TUXEDO Plays Key Role in HP's High-availability Solution By Providing 'Always Available, Always Reliable' Internet Transactions
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - news), a world leader in mission-critical Web and transaction middleware solutions, today announced it is joining Hewlett-Packard Company's (NYSE: HWP - news) 5nines:5minutes alliance, which is composed of industry leaders HP, Oracle, Cisco, EMC and as of today BEA and SAP. The initiative is geared to provide enterprise customers with high availability e-commerce and enterprise computing solutions. Through its BEA TUXEDO software, BEA is contributing the core e-commerce transaction processing platform to support the 5nines:5minutes alliance's goal of delivering solutions that achieve 99.999 percent end-to-end availability. (Please see today's release from HP titled, ''HP's 5nines:5minutes Alliance Delivers the Highest Availability for the Internet Age.'')
BEA TUXEDO provides the 5nines:5minutes alliance with a critical component that addresses key requirements for e-commerce applications on the Web, including high availability and manageability. As a key component to the 5nines:5minutes solutions, BEA TUXEDO will process, monitor and manage transactions generated from applications running on the 5nines:5minutes solutions -- in essence, providing a layer that routes and delivers transactions across the entire enterprise system, even in the event of a failure elsewhere in the system. BEA TUXEDO will be tightly integrated with key HP management, monitoring and high availability and technologies, including MC/Service Guard, Event Monitoring Service (EMS), HP OpenView IT/Operations (ITO) and other HP solutions. The tight integration between BEA TUXEDO and these HP solutions will provide customers building high availability applications with enhanced manageability of the complete system as well as benefits for reduced risk of downtime and faster time to market.
As a part of the alliance, HP is also announcing new Mission Critical Support services for BEA products, including proactive and reactive support services, assistance with planning and tuning, change and patch management, remote monitoring security planning and implementation.
''Our strategy is to enable the transactions that deliver 'always available, always reliable' e-commerce, so it was a natural fit when HP asked us to provide the e-commerce transaction platform for its 5nines:5minutes initiative,'' said Bill Coleman, chairman and CEO of BEA. ''We are collaborating to give customers end-to-end solutions -- from development to deployment and management -- so that customers can more easily create e-commerce systems for the new Internet economy.''
''With BEA on board, the 5nines:5minutes alliance again raises the bar for high availability enterprise computing,'' said Janice Chaffin, vice president and general manager of HP's Business Critical Computing Business Unit. ''With solutions from HP and the other 5nines:5minutes partners, BEA TUXEDO will help ensure the highest end-to-end availability levels for customers.''
Syntellect Interactive Services, a leading provider of hosted services and outsourced telephony/Internet applications, is taking advantage of a 5nines:5minutes alliance solution incorporating BEA TUXEDO, as well as solutions from alliance partners HP and Cisco Systems, Inc. ''BEA TUXEDO is a proven technology in our data center, and BEA's move to join this alliance simplifies my job further by ensuring that 5nines:5minutes solutions are tested and certified before we get them,'' said Dave E. McCampbell, vice president of engineering at Syntellect Interactive Services. ''The addition of BEA TUXEDO significantly bolsters the HP 5nines:5minutes alliance as a source of end-to-end, high availability solutions for us.''
BEA's commitment to the 5nines:5minutes alliance expands the strategic alliance between BEA and HP, announced in April 1999, which represents a three-year, $100 million commitment from HP to BEA for development, sales and support of integrated cross-platform solutions for enterprise customers. The 5nines:5minutes alliance builds on the goals of the existing BEA and HP strategic relationship, for providing customers with a complete software infrastructure for building reliable, high-performance e-commerce solutions and integrating enterprise applications.
HP's 5nines:5minutes Alliance
The 5nines:5minutes alliance is composed of industry leaders HP, Oracle, Cisco, EMC and as of today BEA and SAP -- companies committed to developing and delivering the highest availability solutions for the Internet age. By implementing 5nines:5minutes alliance end-to-end solutions, customers benefit from highly available, secure and scalable infrastructure, while at the same time maintaining the flexibility of an open system. Information about HP and its products can be found at hp.com.
BEA Systems, Inc.
BEA Systems, Inc., is a leading provider of mission-critical Web and transaction middleware solutions for the world's largest enterprises. BEA's product line enables end-to-end, integrated solutions for electronic commerce and business-critical systems. BEA products include BEA TUXEDO, the industry's market share leader for distributed transaction management platforms; BEA WebLogic, a leading application server family providing CORBA, EJB and enterprise Java solutions; and BEA eLink, a solution for integrating enterprise applications. BEA also provides a comprehensive suite of consulting, education and customer support offerings to preserve and maximize technology investments in BEA products. BEA is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has 52 offices in 24 countries. The company's common stock trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ''BEAS.'' Additional information on BEA is available on the Internet at beasys.com.
NOTE: BEA, TUXEDO, and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. eLink is a trademark of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this document which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Forward-looking statements in this release include statements regarding delivering solutions that achieve 99.999 percent availability, the integration of BEA TUXEDO with HP technologies and the functionality created thereby, BEA's strategy of enabling transactions that deliver 'always available, always reliable' e-commerce, the functionality of BEA TUXEDO, and the implementation of the strategic alliance between HP and BEA. It is important to note that actual outcomes and BEA's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as: unforeseen incompatibilities between BEA's products and HP's products, any developmental difficulties related to integrating BEA products with HP's products and any software errors in BEA's or HP's products. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures outlined in BEA's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year 1999 and BEA's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed from time-to-time with the SEC.
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