NEON Systems and BEA Systems Supply Canada Revenue Agency with Application Servers, Integration Solutions.SUGAR LAND, Texas & SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United StatesSan Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Shadow and BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. Deliver High Volume, Two-Phase Commit A technique for ensuring that a transaction successfully updates all appropriate files in a distributed database environment. All DBMSs involved in the transaction first confirm that the transaction has been received and is recoverable (stored on disk). Transactional Integrity for Mainframe Application Integration NEON(R) Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON), a leader in enterprise-class mainframe integration, and BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that the Canada Revenue Agency The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) administers:
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) administers tax laws for the Government of Canada The Government of Canada is the federal government of Canada. The powers and structure of the federal government are set out in the Constitution of Canada. In modern Canadian use, the term "government" (or "federal government") refers broadly to the cabinet of the day and and for most of the provinces and territories, as well as various social and economic benefit and incentive programs delivered through the tax system. The eBCI project is designed to make extensive use of applications and data residing on large IBM mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. environments and to rely on the combination of NEON's Shadow mainframe integration technology and BEA WebLogic Server to help ensure that updates to the mainframe systems are transactionally synchronized with other distributed resource managers. A key element of the solution, which needs to support hundreds of transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed , was complete support of two-phase commit. This includes recovery, with full integrity, across a variety of transaction failure scenarios. "The Canada Revenue Agency ran one of the most thorough software evaluations we have ever encountered," said Mark Cresswell, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , NEON Systems. "Data integrity is an important issue within any system designed to provide high-value services to such a large constituency. We are delighted that such a prestigious organization as CRA has joined NEON's customer base and this represents yet another joint implementation Joint implementation (JI) is an arrangement under the Kyoto Protocol allowing industrialised countries with a greenhouse gas reduction commitment (so-called Annex 1 countries) to invest in emission reducing projects in another industrialised country as an alternative to for NEON and BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. . We are particularly pleased as CRA's decision reinforces the value we place on delivering mainframe integration software that can operate in the most demanding environments." "Given CRA's specific, mission-critical operational requirements, when the need to transactionally connect BEA WebLogic to the mainframe emerged, we felt that NEON represented a wise choice to help ensure the success of the solution. NEON met our expectations in this respect," said Bobby Napiltonia, vice president and general manager, Global Alliances, BEA Systems. About NEON Systems NEON Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:NEON) is a leading provider of enterprise-class mainframe integration solutions, delivering a unified mainframe integration platform to support the entire range of requirements for modern Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) and emerging Event-Driven Architectures (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ). NEON's Shadow technology is designed to reduce the complexity of mainframe integration allowing large organizations with significant commitment to mainframe systems to streamline incumbent technologies and lower total cost of ownership. With decades of mainframe expertise, NEON is uniquely qualified to reduce the risk organizations face when supporting new business initiatives that integrate with mainframe systems. For more information on the future of mainframe integration, see our Web site at www.neonsys.com. About BEA BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, helping enable companies to improve business responsiveness through service-oriented architecture (SOA), a software design approach that more closely aligns IT with business objectives. With 15,000 customers worldwide including the majority of the Fortune Global 500, BEA and its WebLogic(R) and Tuxedo(R) brands are among the most trusted names in business technology. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., BEA has 75 offices in 36 countries. More information on BEA products and services is available at www.bea.com. Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Some of the statements in this press release are forward-looking, including the statements regarding the plans, goals, completion, implementation, benefits, and details of the relationship between BEA and NEON Systems, Inc. ("Global Partner") and the Canada Revenue Agency (Customer); the development efforts, product delivery and other goals related to this relationship; and the features and benefits of BEA's and Global Partner's products as used by Customer. 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 technical difficulties related to the development and optimization of BEA's or Global Partner's products; use of the products by Customer; the timing of additional investments of resources by BEA and Global Partner related to any joint development initiatives; and any software errors related to BEA's or Global Partner's products or the integration and use thereof in Customer's operations. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures set forth in BEA's 10-Q for the quarter ended July 31, 2004 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. 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