systems plc a british defense and aerospace company . bea systems inc. think liquid . former type corporation founded 1995 defunct 2008 headquarters san jose california usa products tuxedo weblogic aqualogic revenue 1.535 billion usd 2008 net income 208.2 million usd 2008 website 1 bea systems inc. was a company specialized in enterprise infrastructure software products which was wholly acquired by oracle corporation on april 29 2008 . 1 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 aqualogic 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit bea began as a software company founded in 1995 and headquartered in san jose california . it grew to have 78 offices worldwide at the time of its acquisition by oracle . the company s name is an initialism of the first names of the company s three founders bill coleman ed scott and alfred chuang . all were former employees of sun microsystems and launched the business in 1995 by acquiring information management and independence technologies . these firms were the largest resellers of tuxedo a distributed transaction management system sold by novell . bea soon acquired the tuxedo product itself 2 3 and went on to acquire other middleware companies and products including objectbroker and ncr s top end product . in 1998 bea acquired the san francisco start up weblogic which had built the first standards based java application server . weblogic s application server became the impetus for the sun microsystems j2ee specification and formed the basis of bea s weblogic application server sold today . in 2005 bea launched a new brand identity with the slogan think liquid . 4 bea also announced a new product line called aqualogic which is an infrastructure software family for service oriented architecture soa . the same year it made its entrance into telecommunications infrastructure through the acquisition of incomit a swedish telecommunications software provider . 5 in late 2005 the company announced the acquisitions of compoze software a provider of collaboration software 6 m7 an eclipse based tools company 7 and solarmetric editors of the kodo persistence engine . 8 the acquisitions continued in 2006 with plumtree software an enterprise portal company ; fuego a business process management bpm software company ; and flashline a metadata repository company . these acquisitions have since become parts of the aqualogic soa product stack . on october 12 2007 oracle announced their intent to buy bea systems for 6.7 billion . 9 as a result of the offer bea s stock price rose over five dollars upon the opening of trading for the day . 10 bea turned the offer down the same day saying that the company is worth substantially more . 11 on january 16 2008 oracle signed a definite agreement to buy bea for 8.5 billion . it is believed that carl icahn one of the company s most prominent shareholders was the main reason that the deal happened . 12 on april 29 2008 oracle completed its acquisition of bea . 13 products edit bea had three major product lines tuxedo transaction oriented middleware platform bea weblogic now oracle weblogic server java ee enterprise infrastructure platform aqualogic now oracle service bus service oriented architecture soa platform bea started out with the tuxedo software product but currently update the products they are best known for in the computer industry are the weblogic product family which consists of weblogic server weblogic workshop weblogic portal weblogic integration and jrockit . in 2005 bea launched a new product family called aqualogic for service oriented architecture deployment . they have also entered the telecommunications field with their weblogic communications platform which includes weblogic sip server and weblogic network gatekeeper technologies obtained through the acquisition of swedish telecommunications software company incomit . 5 14 bea also has a product offering for the rfid market called the bea weblogic rfid product family . aqualogic edit bea systems produced the aqualogic software suite for managing service oriented architecture soa . it includes following products bea aqualogic bpm suite a set of business process management bpm tools . it combines workflow and process technology with enterprise application integration functionality . the suite consists of tools aimed for line of business personnel for creating business process models aqualogic bpm designer as well as tools for it personnel to create actual business process applications directly from said models aqualogic bpm studio . the completed business process applications are deployed on a production server aqualogic bpm enterprise server from which they integrate to backend applications and generate portal views for human interactions in the process . it also comes with a customizable tools for live business activity monitoring bam . bea aqualogic user interaction a set of tools used to create portals collaborative communities composite applications and other applications that use service architecture . these technologies work cross platform . this technology came to bea systems from its acquisition of plumtree software . bea aqualogic enterprise repository a vital element of effective service oriented architecture life cycle governance manages the metadata for any type of software asset from business processes and web services to patterns frameworks applications and components . it maps the relationships and interdependencies that connect these assets to improve impact analysis promote and systematize code reuse and measure the impact on the bottom line . bea aqualogic service bus an enterprise service bus esb with operational service management that allows the interaction between services routing relationships transformations and policies . bea aqualogic service registry a uddi v3 registry with an embedded governance framework . it provides a repository where services can be registered and reused for developing or modifying applications . bea aqualogic data services platform previously known as liquid data providing tools for creating and managing different data services . it uses the xquery language for data composition and transformation for a variety of data sources including relational databases and web services . bea aqualogic enterprise security a security infrastructure application for distributed authentication fine grained entitlements and other security services . features include allowing users to define access rules for applications without modifying the software itself including jsp pages ejbs and portlets . bea aqualogic commerce services often shortened as alcs an e commerce solution based on elastic path e commerce solution integrated with weblogic application server . discontinued on version 6.0 in year 2009 after bea acquisition by oracle . see also edit list of acquisitions by oracle references edit oracle completes acquisition of bea systems . archived from the original on 20 march 2011 . retrieved march 29 2011 . andrade juan m. ; et al. 1996 . the tuxedo system software for constructing and managing distributed business applications . addison wesley . pp . xxxiv . isbn 0 201 63493 7 . novell and bea systems inc. complete transition of tuxedo to bea press release . bea systems inc. 1996 02 28 . retrieved 2008 04 07 . bea is the exclusive developer and distributor of the tuxedo system on unix nt and all non netware platforms and novell will develop tuxedo based applications for netware . in addition most novell tuxedo employees including development and marketing personnel have joined bea and bea has assumed all contracts with tuxedo partners distributors and customers . bea has exclusive rights to the tuxedo trademark . bea systems launches new brand identity challenges it industry to think liquid . . lexdon business library . 2005 06 09 . retrieved 2008 03 25 . a b bea buys incomit to beef up telecom software bea completes acquisition of compoze software press release . bea systems inc. 2005 07 23 . retrieved 2005 07 23 . compoze software also enables portal customers to easily integrate instant messaging applications from yahoo lotus sametime and microsoft live communication server as well as the ability to incorporate threaded discussions and group white boarding to any portal . bea takes aggressive step to further leadership in developer tools market ; acquires eclipse based company m7 press release . bea systems inc. 2005 09 28 . retrieved 2008 04 10 . m7 offers an eclipse based integrated development environment ide called nitrox that offers unparalleled support for the development of sophisticated web applications based on open source and industry standard frameworks including struts hibernate java server faces and javaserver pages . bea systems acquires solarmetric inc. ; grabs lead in java ee 5 and persistence race press release . bea systems inc. 2005 11 03 . retrieved 2008 04 10 . solarmetric widely respected for its persistence technology around jdo will help bea achieve faster time to market with its flagship weblogic server product . oracle offers 6.7 billion for bea systems . associated press . king tv . 2007 10 12 . archived from the original on 2007 10 14 . retrieved 2007 10 12 . bea systems inc. stock price . google finance . 2007 10 12 . archived from the original on 16 october 2007 . retrieved 2007 10 12 . finkle jim 2007 10 12 . bea rejects 6.7 billion oracle offer . yahoo news . archived from the original on 2007 10 16 . retrieved 2007 10 15 . turton stuart 2008 01 16 . oracle finally bags bea . pc pro . archived from the original on 21 march 2008 . retrieved 2008 03 25 . corporate information management and board of directors bloomberg businessweek bea systems sweden telecom ab external links edit bea systems world website v t e oracle corporation corporate directors jeffrey berg h. raymond bingham michael boskin safra a. catz larry ellison h ctor garc a molina joseph grundfest jeffrey o. henley mark hurd jack f. kemp donald l. lucas naomi o. seligman acquisitions list sun peoplesoft hyperion siebel bea jd edwards rightnow virtual iron timesten retek sunopsis netsuite dbms oracle database mysql innodb berkeley db timesten rdb essbase programming languages java pl sql ide jdeveloper forms netbeans apex sql developer solaris studio middleware fusion middleware webcenter soa suite weblogic server coherence tuxedo glassfish operating systems oracle linux oracle solaris computer hardware sun fire sparc t series enterprise storagetek computer appliances oracle exadata oracle exalogic oracle exalytics big data appliance education and recognition oracle certification program category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bea systems & oldid 719456471 categories bea systemscompanies based in san jose californiasoftware companies based in californiacrm software companiescompanies established in 1995oracle acquisitionshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersarticles containing potentially dated statements from 2008all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais italianolietuvi magyarnederlands portugu s svenska t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 9 may 2016 at 20 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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