To: moufassa7 who wrote (52015 ) 6/5/2001 4:24:50 PM From: wgh613 Respond to of 57584 Computer Associates and BEAS in Web Infrastructure deal: CA and BEA Announce Joint Initiatives to Simplify Management of Web Infrastructure Companies Work Together to Enhance Superior Performance of WebLogic Platform SAN FRANCISCO, Jun 5, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), the world's leading provider of eBusiness management solutions, today announced a series of initiatives with BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS chart, msgs), one of the world's leading eBusiness infrastructure software companies, to help address one of the most serious needs of eBusinesses: management of the web infrastructure. As part of these efforts, CA has developed a new solution, Unicenter Management for BEA WebLogic Server, to provide management for the BEA WebLogic eBusiness Platform. The new CA solution is designed to help IT administrators manage application service levels while decreasing operational overhead. It ensures performance and availability of Enterprise JavaBean (EJB(TM)) components and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) compliant application servers such as BEA WebLogic Server. "Companies rely on our applications to be available to their customers and business partners when and where they need it," said Paul Rosenblum, vice president of product marketing at Blue Martini Software, a provider of external customer relationship management (eCRM) applications. "CA's Unicenter Management for BEA WebLogic will enable our customers to ensure that their deployments are running at an optimal level, 24 hours a day, seven days a week." Unicenter Management for BEA WebLogic Server is an early deliverable in CA's recently announced initiative, to integrate management of Java components and J2EE-compliant application server infrastructure into end-to-end eBusiness management. This series of products was formerly code-named "Athena." "We are delighted to have BEA as one of our partners and to enhance the manageability of their market leading solutions," said Reggie Penn, vice president of Web Infrastructure Management solution, CA. "This relationship will help our customers meet end user service requirements and overall eBusiness objectives through proactive, intelligent management of their web applications and underlying server infrastructure. "We are pleased to be working with CA as it works to transform eBusiness infrastructure management with its built-on BEA solution," said John Kiger, director of product marketing for the BEA E-Commerce Server Division. "With Unicenter Management for BEA WebLogic Server, BEA customers will have an outstanding solution for ensuring the around-the-clock health and performance of their mission-critical web applications