Flamenco Networks Announces Relationship With BEA Systems and Support For the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform.

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ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2003

British Telecommunications Plc. Is First Joint Customer of Web

Services Management Solution

Flamenco Networks, a leading provider of Web Services Management solutions, announced today its partnership with BEA Systems (Nasdaq:BEAS) and support for the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform(TM). In addition, British Telecommunications Plc. (BT) has chosen BEA and Flamenco Networks as strategic technology partners for delivery of its Web Services Management Layer.

"The combination of BEA's rich application infrastructure software combined with Flamenco's Web Services Management software can help customers secure, monitor, provision and manage the connections between their Web services providers and requesters," said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. "Integrating our technologies offers our customers a comprehensive solution, especially when they are exposing Web services across firewalls."

British Telecommunications Plc. has chosen BEA and Flamenco Networks as strategic technology partners for delivery of its Web Services Management Layer, a managed service that can ensure the security of Web Services-based transactions and enables BT customers to track and monitor usage and performance of Web services.

"The announcement of BEA and Flamenco Networks working together reinforces our view that a range of partners must collaborate to bring the benefits of Web services to customers," said Peter Gandy, BT Ignite's head of Web Services. "Our Web services portfolio benefits from having such a set of capabilities."

"We are delighted to be partnering with BEA Systems," said Dave Spicer, Flamenco Networks founder and CTO. "Their application infrastructure combined with our Web Services Management solutions can give customers an end-to-end infrastructure for developing, deploying, managing and maintaining Web services-based applications."

About Flamenco Networks

Flamenco Networks delivers Web Services Management (WSM) solutions that provide IT organizations with complete visibility and control over SOAP messages. Flamenco's patent-pending "heartbeat" architecture makes it possible to non-invasively secure, monitor, provision, and manage Web Services-based transactions behind and across firewalls. Customers include enterprise users and network services providers such as McKesson Information Solutions and British Telecommunications. To find out more, visit www.flamenconetworks.com.

Editors Note: Flamenco, Flamenco Networks and the Flamenco logo are trademarks of Flamenco Networks, inc. BEA and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other trademarks, company and product names are recognized as proprietary to their owners.

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