Blue Titan Eases Enterprise SOA Adoption With BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1; BEA and Blue Titan Provides Solution for Enterprise Service-Oriented Architectures.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003

Blue Titan Software, Inc. today announced that its industry-leading Network Director Web services networking product is now fully integrated with BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1(TM).

Today's announcement supports the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1, an integrated platform that provides superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration, from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS).

Blue Titan Network Director for BEA WebLogic is the only Web services networking product built exclusively for the BEA WebLogic Platform. The joint solution is designed to enable companies to pragmatically adopt enterprise service-oriented architectures (SOAs):

-- BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 provides the best-in-class

application platform suite for developing, integrating and

deploying service-based applications;

-- Blue Titan Network Director 2.0 extends the BEA WebLogic

Platform into the world of service-oriented architectures,

delivering the required control over for these increasingly

distributed enterprise applications.

"Standardizing on BEA WebLogic has been a huge win for us and for our customers deploying enterprise SOAs," said Frank Martinez, chairman and chief technology officer of Blue Titan Software. "BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 saves Blue Titan and our customers time and money by standardizing on the best, proven application platform in the market. Plus, it gives us access to BEA's powerful advanced technologies such as XML Beans and XQuery."

"Blue Titan epitomizes a best-in-class ISV partner for BEA," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. "Blue Titan has done an outstanding job of leveraging and extending the attributes of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 so that enterprise customers can expand their vision and plans for a complete service-oriented architecture -- a solution that showcases the power and potential of the BEA WebLogic Platform."

BEA WebLogic and Blue Titan Network Director together offer the best of both worlds -- flexibility and control -- for organizations moving from simple Web services-based applications to a robust and manageable enterprise SOA. The joint solution is designed to let application developers build powerful network-enabled applications, while providing IT with a control layer to ensure these distributed applications are enterprise-class. Network Director interoperates and complements each element of the WebLogic Platform:

-- BEA WebLogic Server: Network Director's distributed network

architecture is completely built-on-BEA, leveraging the proven

scalability and security framework of BEA WebLogic Server;

-- BEA WebLogic Integration: Network Director provides the

control layer for loosely coupled, service-oriented business

process and data integration using BEA WebLogic Integration

and BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic;

-- BEA WebLogic Workshop: Network Director fits into the BEA

WebLogic Workshop 8.1 framework and development environment;

offering Workshop controls that can ease the transition from

build-time to run-time, and can increase the reuse and

utilization of shared network services;

-- BEA WebLogic Portal: Network Director provides the integrity

and control for portal applications that consume Web services

and XML messages, and ensures that distributed data

successfully and reliably reaches the portal application. And

Network Director's Web service events, notifications and

logging information can be easily accessed in WebLogic Portal

to create real-time "dashboard-based" applications.

About Blue Titan Software, Inc.

Blue Titan is the only company dedicated to address the unique requirements of controlling Web services within distributed enterprises. The company has customer relationships with Fortune 500 companies, including Sony, Goldman Sachs, Ford Motor Company, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Forbes and others. The company also maintains strategic partnerships with major software developers, system integrators and value-added resellers. Based in San Francisco, Blue Titan was founded in 2001 by a seasoned management team and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

Blue Titan, Blue Titan Software, and Blue Titan Network Director and Blue Titan Fabric Services are registered and pending trademarks of Blue Titan Software.

BEA, Tuxedo, and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic JRockit, BEA WebLogic Platform, BEA WebLogic Express, BEA WebLogic Workshop, BEA WebLogic Java Adapter for Mainframe, BEA Liquid Data for WebLogic and BEA eLink are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties.