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BEA Systems Sets New World Records With Sun Microsystems Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 Servers Featuring CoolThreads(TM) Technology

Posted on: Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 12:00 CST

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BEA Systems, Inc. , today announced it set new world performance records with the Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire(TM) T1000 and T2000 servers. BEA is delivering specialized enterprise infrastructure software, including BEA WebLogic 9.0 and the industry's fastest JVM JRockit, on the new breakthrough Sun Fire servers, enabling BEA to pass along to its customers the tremendous price/performance benefits and cost savings resulting from the new Sun Fire systems' low energy consumption. Visit bea.com/coolbea for more information.

BEA WebLogic Server on the Sun Fire T2000 was 31 percent faster than the performance of a 4-way 1.6GHz competitive server on the dual node SPECjAppServer2004. The BEA WebLogic and Sun Fire T2000 server achieved the overall performance world record on all two node results.

The record-setting BEA WebLogic Server 9.0 is designed to help IT administrators and developers increase productivity, reduce cost of IT projects and decrease downtime. It features the world's first hot swappable application technology enabling customers to virtually eliminate the downtime associated with routine maintenance and application upgrades. The product is designed to help enable businesses to focus on moving toward Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Its unique enterprise-grade kernel, which features clustering, security, management, caching and virtual machine technologies, is designed to help make WebLogic Server faster, more scalable, and reliable than any application server in today's market. WebLogic Server's high-performance kernel supports blended application development and deployment for multiple programming models, which can help provide developers with the flexibility to choose the right application framework for their needs. This includes support for J2EE 1.4, Apache Beehive, Web services and several other frameworks. And, as a part of its blended approach to mixing and matching open source and commercial software, BEA plans to offer blended BEA WebLogic management and deployment technologies designed to provide automated management and production-level support for customers using Apache Tomcat. All of these capabilities can help decrease equipment and labor costs required to build and sustain applications and reduce the time and risks affiliated with IT projects.

BEA JRockit 5.0 has been specifically architected for use by large-scale, mission-critical, server-side applications running on high-performing Intel(R) processor-based servers, including 64-bit support for the Intel(R) Xeon(R) and Intel(R) Itanium(R) processors. The software's performance superiority is driving rapid adoption throughout the industry -- JRockit has shown up to 30 percent better performance in the SPECjbb2005 industry standard JVM benchmark, while using significantly less hardware than the closest competitor. BEA is expected to announce at BEAWorld Beijing that the latest release of BEA JRockit 5.0 is designed to provide support for other platforms, including the Solaris OS for UltraSPARC-based systems.

BEA also announced today promotional pricing for the new Sun servers. With the restructured pricing, BEA and Sun are teaming to help provide enterprise customers with the opportunity to deploy service-oriented applications now at a lower cost, without sacrificing performance or reliability. Together, BEA and Sun have created an application infrastructure platform that is designed to enable enterprise customers to successfully build, extend and integrate applications to increase business flexibility, reduce IT complexity and lower costs. More information can be found on bea.com.

"Enterprises have always counted on BEA for high-performance software, and the BEA WebLogic on Sun T2000 system benchmarks released today further extends our performance leadership," said Rob Levy, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, Inc. "Multi-core and thread acceleration technologies are at the sweet spot of system design -- today's launch underscores this continued trend in the industry. In support of the Sun launch, we've announced WebLogic promotional pricing and the general availability of BEA JRockit -- the industry's fastest JVM -- on Solaris."

About BEA

BEA Systems, Inc. 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(R), Tuxedo(R), JRockit(R), 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. For more information, please visit bea.com.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding expected product announcements at BEAWorld Beijing and BEA's plans to offer in early 2006 a developer bundle that features a combination of the WebLogic Express and BEA Workshop product and other features and the benefits of BEA's future products. Actual results could differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties that could cause results to differ materially include risks associated with: any unforeseen changes in the technology, standards or marketplace for enterprise information integration software; the timing of a recovery from the current economic and IT industry downturn; any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the development BEA's solutions; and any software errors related to BEA's solutions. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended October 31,, 2005 as filed with the SEC and subsequent reports filed thereafter by BEA from time-to-time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements contained in this release are made as of the date hereof, and BEA does not assume any obligation to update such statements nor the reasons why actual results could differ materially from those projected in such statements.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Fire, Solaris, T1, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the US and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.

BEA Systems, Inc.

CONTACT: Press: Kelly Clarke of BEA Systems, +1-408-570-8526 orkelly.clarke@bea.com, or Roger Villareal of Weber Shandwick Worldwide,+1-415-248-3425 or roger.villareal@webershandwick.com, for BEA Systems;Industry Analysts: Pam Crain of BEA Systems, Inc., 011-44-118-940-1327 orPam.Crain@bea.com; or +1-408-570-8004 or bea.com/news

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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