BEAS: BEA Systems Positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Analyst Firm's 2Q06 Enterprise Application Servers Magic Quadrant

BEA Systems (NASDAQ:BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers (EAS), 2Q06 report. According to Gartner, Leaders are performing well today, have a clear vision of market direction and are actively building competencies to sustain their leadership position in the market.

“We believe this recognition is confirmation of BEA’s ability to continuously evolve and innovate on our core technology,” said Marge Breya, senior vice president and chief marketing officer, BEA Systems, Inc. “We feel it also demonstrates our ability to execute within the application infrastructure market. We believe BEA’s early adoption of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is among the reasons for this success. Customers tell us that they are increasingly realizing the value and critical role our application infrastructure products play in transforming their businesses.”

In June of this year, BEA was recognized as a tier one vendor in Gartner’s overall application and integration middleware market report based upon total software revenue in 2005. The company also seized the top spot in the application servers segment. The Gartner research note, titled “Market Share: AIM and Portal Software, Worldwide 2005,” authored by Joanne Correia and Fabrizio Biscotti was published June 9, 2006. (See June 20, 2006, press release titled “BEA Systems Seizes Top Spot in Application Servers Based on Total Software Revenue in 2005” on bea.com/news).

BEA’s leading application platform suite – BEA WebLogic Server®, BEA WebLogic Portal™, BEA WebLogic Integration™, BEA WebLogic Workshop™, BEA JRockit™— is designed to help developers service-enable their applications and accelerate the delivery of SOA.

For more information, visit bea.com/weblogic. To learn more about BEA, WebLogic and SOA, register for BEAWorld 2006 San Francisco, September 19-20. Visit bea.com/beaworld and register today.

The Gartner research note, titled "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers, 2Q06," is authored by Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Kimihiko Iijima and Michael Barnes.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted August 4, 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.


About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA delivers the unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy™ can be found www.bea.com.