We will maintain edge over IBM, says BEA. (APP Dev News Review).Big isn't necessarily beautiful, according to according toprep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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 which believes it can out-innovate Java and integration rival IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corp despite the latter's size and vast resources. BEA's director of product marketing for WebLogic enterprise platform John Kiger estimated his company has a two-year technology lead over IBM, while that company merges integration and application development tools. When IBM is done, Kiger predicted, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. would have moved onto a new goal. Kiger was speaking about BEA's position on application integration following publication of an IDC market study that places BEA second behind IBM in the field of application deployment platforms. IDC defines an application deployment platform as an aggregate of integration and application server software. For 2002, IBM had 23.3% of the market while BEA had 17.3%. Kiger said he expected BEA to grow its share of the integration market against IBM and so-called "niche" vendors like webMethods Inc, SeeBeyond Technologies Corp and Tibco Software Tibco Software Inc. is a software company, with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Tibco sells business process management and business integration software. History Vivek Ranadive founded the company as Teknekron Software Systems (TSS) in 1985. Inc. webMethods, SeeBeyond and Tibco had between 2.7% and 4.9% of the application deployment platform market. Company 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. Alfred Chuang has said previously it is BEA's goal to replace such vendors, by offering a more "mass-market" integration offering, based on WebLogic. However, IBM represents possibly BEA's greatest challenge. The two companies have, in recent years, jockeyed for the number-one application server slot, with IBM closing the gap on BEA. It is thought inevitable by some analysts that IBM will eventually overtake BEA, knocking it into permanent number-two slot. Kiger, though, believes technology innovation will help keep BEA ahead. He claimed a 45% increase in research and development spending during the last two years, accounting for 14% of company revenue in fiscal 2002. That increase has gone on WebLogic Integration, Platform and Liquid Data. The products increasingly share the same security and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. stack, and in version 8.1 of WebLogic Platform will use the same development tools via WebLogic Workshop. "We have a track record that keeps us one to two years ahead of IBM. By the time IBM catches up by converging integration and application server technologies, we will have moved to somewhere else. It doesn't stop," Kiger said. |
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