BEA Systems
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By: Martin Brampton
Classification: Vendor Brief
BEA Systems has grown rapidly through the acquisition of products and companies, all of which have been in the area of middleware – a sector that has only recently become widely recognised partly because of the efforts of BEA itself. Recently, BEA has simplified its branding by moving its major products into two streams – Weblogic application servers and Tuxedo transaction processing engines. With the refocusing of applications development onto distributed components and Internet protocols, BEA has adopted an important position notwithstanding its relatively small size