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Taking its fight in the enterprise infrastructure software
space to the next level, BEA chairman and CEO Alfred Chuang at the BEAWorld
conference here announced a series of new products and partnerships programs,
which the company claimed would help customers 'think liquid' and accelerate
their service-oriented architecture (SOA) projects from pilot to production.
Chuang also claimed that BEA was the leader in the SOA space.
This is in direct contrast with arch rival IBM's claim that BEA was attempting
to gain "traction" in the space where it was already a leader by a
large margin.
Reports suggest that IBM is expected to announce new SOA
management services later this week to strengthen its control in the SOA space.
"SOA is the most powerful movement in enterprise
technology today," Chuang said adding that BEA was the company making SOA
happen in the real world. Talking to CyberMedia News, BEA executive vice
president for new product strategy Rob Levy said that while SOA was still
defining itself, BEA's technologies were best suited to meet customers'
demand in the space.
"The days of business silos and software smokestacks are
coming to an end, and our customers couldn't be happier," Chuang said
adding that the managers will no longer have to cobble together scraps of
information through dozens of phone calls, requests from corporate databases and
hours of spreadsheet work.
Reiterating BEA's commitment to the SOA space, Chuang also
unveiled its WebLogic Real Time Edition and slated to be available in Q4 2005.
"This product doesn't need to pause to do garbage
collection of software objects," he said, adding that the new version
allows customers to upgrade applications while they're still running on a
network," he said.
The company claims that the real time edition would also help
customers get more predictable performance from their Web sites and
applications, thereby helping them leverage these benefits in an SOA.
Giving a demo of the new product, the company's vice
president, marketing, Bill Roth pointed out that the WebLogic Server has the
zero-downtime capability that enables it to be upgraded with no system downtime.
This can be critical for maintaining transactional applications.
The BEAWorld 2005 also saw BEA reiterating its support for
using open source application frameworks, like Spring, with its middleware. BEA
is providing customer support for Spring as well as certifying Spring for use
with WebLogic Server.
BEA's WebLogic Platform can blend with frameworks including
Apache's Beehive and XMLBeans, Spring, Tomcat, and the Eclipse Web Tools
Platform.
Shubhendu Parth
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