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To: Ibexx who wrote (2167)	12/11/2001 10:24:27 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2477

I'll have to look for some Santory beer on our friendly neighborhood grocers shelf...How does it taste? Is it more of an ale? I wonder if the BEAS workers will get any work done, or if they'll be tasting all day? Now where is Susan when I'm actually talking about BEAS? This sounds exactly like what the Dr. ordered for BEAS. 12/11/2001 3:33:00 PM 12-11 0504 BEA Systems and Peregrine move into integration By Ilaina Jonas NEW YORK, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Business software makers BEA Systems Inc. (BEAS) and Peregrine Systems Inc. (PRGN) have reached a deal designed to propel both into the growing area of systems integration, a direction seen as necessary for BEA and a golden opportunity for Peregrine, industry analysts said Tuesday. Under the agreement, BEA will offer Peregrine's adapters into its overall WebLogic Integration platform. Adapters act as translators between various applications, allowing them to talk to each other via the integration platform. They are a small but crucial piece of the integrationpuzzle, much like tires to an automobile. "The big deal about this one is that BEA is smart enough not to get involved in building adapters, which is a sink hole business," Forrester Research analyst Chris Dial said. Shares of BEA rose 70 cents, or 4.31 percent, to $16.94 in late afternoon trade on Nasdaq. Peregrine rose 80 cents, or 4.98 percent to $16.85 Peregrine -- whose software is used by companies to track and manage equipment, facilities and personnel -- has set its sights on making adapters that can be used by any integration product. "This is a good step in the right direction for them to become probably ... one of the two or three major providers of adapter technologies for the industry," Daniel Sholler, senior analyst with Meta Group's application service, said. The strategy seems to be working, as Peregrine recently announced a deal that calls for International Business Machiness to resell its adapters to be used for IBM's WebSphere products. When a company upgrades the version of the application it uses, the adapter also must change. BEA introduced its WebLogic Integration product in July and on Tuesday said more than 80 customers have purchased it. "It's going to help BEA become a credible player in the integration market which is something they were on the cusp of doing but had not quite achieved until this point," said Sholler. BEA has been under pressure to expand beyond making application servers, an increasingly competitive field. Application developers use application servers, which are software, as a foundation on which to build their computer programs for putting business on the Web. "BEA has to demonstrate that they are moving into the integration market because they're going to have to move out of application servers," Dial said. "That market is becoming extremely competitive and it's also becoming commoditized. I don't think the number itself is as important as the notion that BEA is finally taking integration seriously." Up until now, adapters made by integration vendors, such as Vitria Technology Inc. (VITR) , webMethods Inc. (WEBM) , Tibco Software Inc. (TIBX) and SeeBeyond Technology Corp. (SBYN) have been proprietary and work only with thier own integration systems. REUTERS

To: Ibexx who wrote (2167)	12/19/2001 1:21:23 PM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2477

BEA Systems wins contract over IBM: BEA to Provide the Application Infrastructure for moneysupermarket.com's UK Financial Services Offering-BEA WebLogic Selected Over IBM WebSphere PR NEWSWIRE, 12/19/2001 6:00:00 AM SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 19, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), one of the world's leading application infrastructure software companies, today announced that it has won a contract to provide BEA WebLogic(R) Integration and BEA WebLogic Personalization Server(TM) technology to moneysupermarket.com, an innovative UK-based financial services portal. Moneysupermarket.com reviewed a selection of application infrastructure solutions, including IBM's WebSphere, before selecting BEA WebLogic. BEA WebLogic software will power moneysupermarket.com's expanding e-business operations and allow the company to diversify its service offerings for business partners, consumers and independent financial advisers. Moneysupermarket.com is set to launch its account aggregator service -- the first of its kind in the UK market -- early next year based on BEA WebLogic. Moneysupermarket.com, wholly owned by Mortgage2000, is a profitable, commission-based online business. The company independently aggregates and compares a comprehensive range of financial products and services, including credit cards, mortgages, utilities, savings accounts and insurance. The company OEMs its content to leading search engines and ISPs, including Lycos, Excite, Telegraph.co.uk and Thisismoney.com. "Following our review of the technology options, we identified BEA WebLogic as the most open and flexible solution for the business," said Simon Nixon, CEO of Mortgage2000. "BEA WebLogic offers a scalable infrastructure solution that will provide a robust and highly available platform for our business, and allow us to easily and cost-effectively export personalized content to our online partners." The BEA WebLogic Integration(TM) solution will power moneysupermarket.com's account aggregator, allowing customers to view multiple online account records via a single Internet touchpoint. The account aggregator service will also highlight favorable offerings from other banks while customers check their records. The service will use an XML connection from BEA WebLogic to moneysupermarket.com's existing proprietary financial services comparison tool. Moneysupermarket.com has signed partnerships with a number of leading portals and Internet service providers. These partners market moneysupermarket.com content and services under their own brand and URL. BEA WebLogic Personalization Server allows moneysupermarket.com to tailor the look, feel and functionality of its content to the specific requirements of its various business partners before exporting the data to remote partner sites. The ability to rapidly share content with new partners is critical to moneysupermarket.com's B2B revenue stream. "The right infrastructure technology is a critical success factor for online businesses," Nixon said. "Our ability to achieve rapid time to market and commercial innovation will determine the profitability of the business in the competitive financial services marketplace. The BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform provides the all-important foundation for this effort." About moneysupermarket.com Moneysupermarket.com provides consumers with the ability to compare the cost of mortgages, credit cards, personal loans, critical illness, life assurance and breakdown polices, utilities (including dual fuel information), savings accounts, current accounts and cash ISAs, plus business banking services. It was also the first and only company to introduce an online mortgage auction, where businesses bid for house-buyers' mortgage business. The Mortgage 2000 Group owns moneysupermarket.com and launched the website service to consumers in December 1999. The Mortgage 2000 Group was formed in 1993 to provide mortgage-sourcing software to Independent Financial Advisers (IFAs) and mortgage brokers. Mortgage 2000 has more than 10,000 IFA and mortgage brokers subscribing on a paid basis to its trade software, and an independent survey carried out by the IMLA involving more than 10,000 intermediaries concluded that Mortgage2000 has 50.2% of the intermediary mortgage sourcing market. The company is based in Chester, England. Ibexx