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BEA Systems, Inc., with headquarters in San Jose, California, is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, providing standards-based platforms to accelerate the secure flow of information and services. BEA product lines -- WebLogic®, Tuxedo®, JRockit®, and the new AquaLogic(TM) family of Service Infrastructure -- help customers reduce IT complexity and successfully deploy Service-Oriented Architectures to improve business agility and efficiency. BEA has 77 offices in 37 countries.
 

DETAILS  
Index Nasdaq 100; AMEX Internet
Sector Technology
Industry Business Software
URLs http://www.beasys.com
Ticker (NASDAQ: BEAS)
SIC 7372 - Services-Prepackaged Software
Founded 1995
IPO Apr 10, 1997
   
Linked to Warburg, Pincus
   
 
 
HISTORY Divestiture
  Webgain
   
 
HISTORY Acquisitions
Nov 3, 2005 SolarMetric, Inc. |
Oct 20, 2003 Plumtree Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUM) for approximately USD $204 million
Oct 11, 2005 ConnecTerra | Linked to: Sun Microsystems and PPD.
Sep 28, 2005 M7 |
Jul 19, 2005 Compoze Software, Inc. | Linked to: Robin Hood Ventures; Diamond State Ventures; Battery Ventures
Jan 5, 2005 Incomit, a privately held Swedish company |
Feb 11, 2003 CrossLogix Inc.
Feb 25, 2002 Appeal Virtual Machines AB
Jul 10, 2001 Crossgain Corporation
Oct 4, 2000 Bauhaus Technologies, Inc
Oct 4, 2000 Purchased the BEA-related operations of Liam, a John Bryce Products Group company, and established a subsidiary in Israel.
June 7, 2000 Softport Systems, Inc.
Apr 17, 2000 Consulting and education group of privately held The Object People, based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [In separate news, WebGain, Inc., the company formed by Warburg Pincus and BEA Systems, announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire The Object People company and its market-leading TOPLink product.]
Mar 21, 2000 The Workflow Automation Corporation, a privately held software development firm in Markham, Ontario, Canada
Nov 10, 1999 The Theory Center, a privately held, Boston-based software development firm focused on creating Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) component solutions that enable companies to quickly turn their e-commerce visions into revenue-generating reality. Under the terms of the agreement, BEA will pay approximately $100 million in stock and cash, and will integrate The Theory Center's executive management and staff of 42 into BEA's operations.
Aug 10, 1999 Avitek, Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based software development firm dedicated to building enterprise solutions based on Java and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) technology. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Jul 21, 1999 Technology Resource Group, Inc. (TRGI), a leading Java information technology education, mentoring, and consulting organization
Jun 1, 1999 Component Systems, a Silicon Valley-based consulting firm specializing in designing and developing component architectures for very large-scale e-commerce applications at companies such as Amazon.com, DHL Systems, and Norwest Bank. Financial terms were not disclosed at this time.
Oct 2, 1998 WebLogic, Inc., the privately held provider of an industry-leading Java-based web application server.
Jul 21, 1998 Entersoft Systems Corporation, the Bridgewater, N.J.-based master distributor of BEA TOP END®. BEA acquired the TOP END enterprise middleware software suite from NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) in May. The Entersoft acquisition closed July 20; financial terms were not disclosed.
May 20, 1998 TOP END enterprise middleware technology and product family from NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR).
May 12, 1998 Leader Group, Inc., a private company specializing in consulting solutions for the development, deployment, and delivery of mission-critical distributed object applications. In conjunction with this acquisition, BEA is establishing a Worldwide Distributed Object Solution Center in Denver, Colorado.
Mar 19, 1997 Acquisition of exclusive rights to MessageQ and ObjectBroker from Digital
Equipment Corporation
Jan 28, 1997 Bay Technologies, the largest BEA TUXEDO distributor in southern Asia-Pacific. Based in Brisbane, Australia, Bay Technologies will become a part of BEA's Southern Asia-Pacific operation
Sep 19, 1996 Innov-X SA (Pty) Ltd., a leading South African distributed computing solutions vendor.
Jun 27, 1996 Client-Server Technologies, Ltd. (CST), experts in middleware and one of the five largest distributors of BEA TUXEDO® in the world. CST, based near Helsinki, Finland, will become the headquarters of the BEA Scandinavia operation.
May 14, 1996 UNIX System Laboratories (USL) S.A., the largest TUXEDO distributor outside the U.S., as the basis forBEA's Paris office.
   
Nov 1995 Independence Technologies, Inc.
Sep 1995 Information Management Company
Feb 1996 Acquired worldwide exclusive rights to TUXEDO from Novell, Inc.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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